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June 17, 1775 – This Day During The American Revolution – The Battle of Bunker
June 17,1775 – The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle. It was the original objective of both the colonial and British troops, though the majority of combat took place on the adjacent hill which later became known as Breed’s Hill.
Cooking made us human."
There's a whole shelf of books on it now, a cozy little origin story where our ancestors huddled round a fire, cooked up some roots, unlocked the calories, and grew a big shiny brain out of the steam.
Charming. It's also nonsense, and it collapses the second you check the dates.
Here's the fatal problem, the one that ends the debate before it starts. If cooking made us, the fire has to come first. It has to. And it doesn't. Our line has been evolving for around 2.5 million years, brains swelling the whole way up, and yet widespread, habitual use of fire only turns up somewhere around 400,000 years ago.
That's not a minor timing quibble. That's the entire theory arriving two million years late to explain something that had already happened. You cannot hand the trophy to a runner who showed up after the race was won, the medals were given out, and everyone had gone home.
So what actually grew the brain across those two million fireless years? Meat. Raw, hunted, ...
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