The "cooking hypothesis" suggests that Homo erectus
A) significantly increased the available food and nutrition and decreased tooth size after learning to control fire.
B) started to use fire to keep animals away from their camps, thus allowing them to survive the long African nights.
C) began to cannibalize (and cook) other hominins, thus decreasing competition and increasing food availability at the same time.
D) took much longer to evolve than other hominins because cooking made life much easier and more survivable for them.
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