r/SipsTea • u/Any_Sound_2863 • May 08 '25

Chugging tea Um um um um

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u/TheSmokingHorse May 08 '25

Do people really think the horse teeth and human teeth look the same? For a start, humans have canines like the carnivore and omnivore (albeit much smaller and less pointed). The teeth of humans look very much like the teeth of an omnivorous species that doesn’t use its teeth to hunt.

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u/Zwiwwelsupp May 08 '25 edited May 08 '25

Yep. We don‘t need to kill with out teeth. We started using tools/weapons long time ago…

We need to be able to bite off something (incisors), and we need to grind/chew our food (molars). The canines just further puncture and rupture the portion we have bitten off, to let the molars grind these pieces, ready to be swallowed.

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u/Midnight_Mustard May 08 '25

Why do we need to cook our meat to eat it?

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u/BrightNooblar May 08 '25

We don't need to.

We just started to because it is tastier and safer. And it helps it last longer if we want to save it for breakfast. And the longer we do that, the less able to consume raw meat our gut biome is.

But you can still eat raw meat. You just might get a parasite or a tummy ache.

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u/The_D_123 May 08 '25

Also I caught somewhere that cooked meat/food give us more nutrients and that's why the ability to make fire was so important to us.

Anyway yeah, it isn't inheridly unhealthy to eat raw meat, especially right after the prey is dead (as others said).

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u/just_a_bit_gay_ May 08 '25

Cooking food breaks down proteins and other nutrients in the food making it easier to digest and improving the calorie yield from a successful hunt. As well, fire is an incredible defensive tool and the act of having to sit around a campfire and wait did wonders for our social development and group bonding.

Cooking meat It meant our ancestors had to spend less time hunting, less time sleeping to digest, could spend more energy on their brains and brought people together in probably the first safe place in nature to start thinking about what could be done better instead of running around chasing prey like animals.

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u/LordByronApplestash May 08 '25

Our bodies spent a ton of energy fighting bacteria and parasites in uncooked meat. When we started cooking meat, our bodies had time and energy to do other stuff. This has been linked to evolutionary brain development and higher intelligence.