Cooking up cognition: Study suggests chimps have cognitive capacity for cooking

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 02:20 in Psychology & Sociology

These days, cooking dinner requires no more thought than turning a knob on a stovetop, but for early humans the notion that - simply by applying heat or fire - foods could be transformed into something both tastier and easier to digest demanded huge cognitive insight - insights often believed to be limited to humans.

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