A Harvard anthropologist has proposed that using fire to cook food could be dated back to almost two million years and that it could explain hominid features like having a large brain and small teeth.

哈佛大学的一位人类学家提出，用火做饭可以追溯到近200万年前，这可以解释人类的一些特征，比如大脑大，牙齿小。

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Reading Shakespeare, learning to cook and building an airplane out of tooth picks all will challenge your brain and give you something to think about.

阅读莎士比亚，学习烹饪，用牙签造架飞机，这些都将挑战你的头脑，让你思考。

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Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook recently talked with Dehaene about how the art of reading reveals the fundamental relationship between our cultural inventions and our evolved brain.

《心智问题》(Mind Matters)杂志主编Gareth Cook最近采访了Dehaene，讨论了阅读艺术是如何泄露了人类文化产物和我们大脑进化之间最根本的关系。

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These findings support my belief the brain has a mightier function to perform than simply to cook up ideas.

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