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These hearths provide clear evidence that Neanderthals could control fire, and fragments within the ashes provide circumstantial evidence that they could perform radical transformation on their food, a transformation that Claude Levi-Strauss regarded as one of the principal features that marked out humanity as something distinct and separate from the natural world. They could cook.
— Martin Jones, Feast: Why Humans Share Food, 2007.
