Chase No Boundaries

For many people, when they think about food, it appears to be a magical happiness even under constraints. Even, we may experience the magical happiness, when the smells of cooking spread around ourselves.  The connection between foods we eat every day, can tell us more about our evolution and culture. Not only in taste but also in cooking methods, varieties of foods are available in different parts of the world. A Key to Modern Human Evolution In the discourse of evolution , cooking has more contribution in development of human beings. Scientists accept that eating cooked food made major effects in the human body over the time period. At about 1.8 million years ago, our ancestors known as Homo erectus develop larger brain than their ancestors.  Scientists found that around these periods significant changes such as increase in brain size, decrease in tooth size and smaller gut when compared to their ancestors who came before.  It is impossible to know the exa...

“The domestication of dogs was one of the most extraordinary events in human history”-  Brian Hare, Anthropologist Human beings have established their homes and communities all over the world. But they didn’t do it alone; dogs have accompanied humans in herding, hunting, and sledding. The relationship with dogs goes back thousands of years further than with any other pet. Of all those animal alliances, our relationship with the dogs is the oldest for at least 30,000 years or even older. But, they all evolved from the ancient wolves which are purely wild animals and more violent in nature. What makes these wolves from being our bitter rivals to man’s best friend? Roughly over 100,000 years ago, human beings started to migrate and settled in Eurasia, the continent comprising all of Europe and Asia. At that time wolves were one of the main rivals at the top of the food chain for humans. Much like human hunters, they lived and hunted in groups. Further, they used th...