What If Humans Never Learned to Cook? You'd Chew 6 Hours a Day

You wake up hungry, and you will spend the rest of the day chewing. Not a lunch break, not a quick snack: hours of grinding, swallowing, and starting over. This is the life your ancestors would have had if one glowing accident had never happened. In this video, you'll discover why chimpanzees chew for about six hours a day while you chew for roughly one. You'll meet the scientists behind the cooking hypothesis: Richard Wrangham, Rachel Carmody, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Leslie Aiello and Peter Wheeler. You'll see how cooked food may have shrunk your gut, jaw, and teeth while your brain grew, what the earliest evidence of fire at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov and Wonderwerk Cave really shows, and why cooking may have trapped humans in a world they can no longer leave. If this changed how you see your next meal, hit the like button, drop a comment with the strangest thing you learned, and subscribe for more stories about how your ancestors really lived. 00:00 You Wake Up Hungry 00:44 Richard Wrangham's Cooking Hypothesis 02:26 The Evidence: Mice, Brains and Raw Diets 04:49 Two Worlds: Life Without Fire vs With Fire 06:27 The Twist: Cooking Trapped Us #ancienthumans #humanevolution #prehistory #anthropology #earlyhumans #cookinghypothesis #richardwrangham #discoveryoffire #homoerectus #huntergatherers #humanorigins #evolutionexplained #whatif #educationalvideo #doodleanimation #historyexplained #sciencefacts #humanhistory #paleoanthropology