Why Do Humans Eat 🥩(meat) & chiken ? (Explain in English)

Why do humans eat meat and chiken?— and why did the chicken, of all animals, end up on almost every plate on Earth? The answer goes back further than farming, further than fire, and possibly further than our own species. In this video, we dig into 3.4-million-year-old cut-marked bones from Ethiopia, the "expensive tissue hypothesis" and whether meat really built bigger brains, how sheep and goats became humanity's first "living pantry," and the surprisingly recent — and surprisingly strange — story of how the chicken went from a sacred fighting bird to the most eaten meat on the planet. Spoiler: a world war, a supermarket chain, and a 1948 breeding contest called "Chicken of Tomorrow" all played a part. In this video: – Why meat feels normal and nobody questions it – The oldest evidence of meat-eating (Dikika & Bouri, Ethiopia) – Did meat really make our brains bigger? – Why meat solves multiple nutrition problems at once – How herding changed everything – The red junglefowl: chicken's wild ancestor – Why early chickens weren't eaten at all – How WWII rationing made America fall in love with chicken – The "Chicken of Tomorrow" contest that created the modern bird – Where this is all heading All information in this video is based on published research, academic studies, and credible sources — sources are linked below. Sources: [ • Dikika stone-tool butchery (about 3.4 million years old), Nature, 2010: https://www.mpg.de/research/oldest-evidenc... • Oldest stone tools (Gona) and Bouri cut-marked bones, same release as above. •Aiello & Wheeler, expensive tissue hypothesis: https://www.scielo.br/j/bjg/a/FxXZ7LPBDmZx... •Navarrete et al., Nature, 2011 (no brain-gut trade-off across mammals), and critiques of "meat made us human": https://www.livescience.com/health/food-di... •Cooking and brain energy: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/20... •Vitamin B12 in animal foods (NIH / MedlinePlus): https://medlineplus.awsqa.nlm.nih.gov/ency... •Vitamin B12 bioavailability (Exp Biol Med, 2007): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17959839/ •Heme iron and meat nutrition review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/... •Chicken domestication and early cockfighting/ritual use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultry •Chicken arrival in Europe, radiocarbon dating (Antiquity, 2022): https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/188387 •Maresha chicken bones (Perry-Gal et al., PNAS, 2015): https://wfdd.org/post/ancient-city-where-p... •Chicken of Tomorrow contest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_of_T... •Chicken before and after WWII, price vs. hamburger: https://fhmagazine.org/financial-history-i... •Chicken as a special-occasion meal before WWII: https://www.resilience.org/?p=1571930 OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2024-2033 (poultry share of meat protein): https://www.agriland.co.uk/?p=387178 ] ___________________________________________________________ If you enjoyed this, subscribe for more deep dives into the strange, overlooked science behind everyday things — and let me know in the comments which food question you want explained next. #meat #chicken #history #science #evolution #nutrition