Wrangham and his colleagues suggested that the invention of cooking at the time of the first Homo erectus was a major change affecting subsequent human evolution. What apparent facts seem to falsify this hypothesis?
A) The best evidence for the first use of fire by humans dates to at least 1 million years before Homo erectus.
B) The clearest evidence for the first use of fire by humans dates to at least 1 million years after Homo erectus.
C) Homo erectus was significantly larger than earlier australopithecines, suggesting that hunting was more important than cooking.
D) There are no changes in the diet-related physiology (teeth, gut, etc.) of Homo erectus, suggesting that something like cooking was added to the hominin toolkit.
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