2012-07-17 15:09:10
The first hundred episodes of the Quilo de Ciencia Podcast are cause for celebration and we celebrate by doing what we firmly believe in: disseminating science. Since June 2010, Jorge Laborda has been offering us a previously digested version of some of the advances that are taking place in the different fields of scientific knowledge. During these two years of existence, listeners have downloaded more than 600,000 Quilo de Ciencia audios directly from our server and, in addition, each episode has been broadcast by Radio Cienciaes and the more than 70 stations around the world that broadcast the podcasts. from Cienciaes.com. The audience grows every day, demonstrating how attractive science is when it is explained in an entertaining and easy-to-understand way.
In today’s program, Jorge Laborda talks with Angel Rodríguez Lozano and offers us a special, longer podcast, which shows the multiple faces that scientific research has when an idea or phenomenon is investigated.
The chosen theme defends the idea that humanity has cooked up its own evolution and, as a consequence, cannot do without cooking. The use of fire to cook food could have been a determining factor in the spectacular growth that the hominid brain experienced two million six hundred thousand years ago. The brain is an organ that consumes a large amount of energy, an energy consumption that, contrary to what might be expected, is not accompanied by a greater development of our digestive system to extract the necessary energy from food, quite the opposite. .
Cooking allows for greater digestibility and caloric utilization of food, reduces the need for chewing and allows for a smaller digestive system. Cooking food allowed a set of adaptations that led to rapid brain growth thanks to the reduction in jaw volume and our digestive system.
These ideas have been reflected in detail in an article that Jorge Laborda makes available to all of you here:
Download COOKED NEUROEVOLUTION
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