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Pass the Mashed Potatoes
Like humans, great apes express a preference for cooked foods over raw, according to a new study. The scientists who conducted the study say the results suggest that a preference for cooked foods -- which tend to be softer and sweeter -- probably existed in our hominid ancestors before controlled fire emerged.

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