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Eating and food processing from two million years helped us to evolve and develop language. Researchers say that learning to cut up meat and use tools to process food were crucial in our evolution. The fact that we cut food up meant we used time for chewing. This gave us more time to develop language and communicate. The researchers estimate that cutting up food saved humans as many as 2.5 million per year. In , chimpanzees spend half the day chewing, which means they have less to communicate.

Researchers also say the of our face changed because we needed to chew less. Our and teeth became smaller. Professor Daniel Lieberman said: "We went from having…big teeth and large muscles to having smaller teeth [and] smaller chewing . Those …allowed for the selection for speech and other in the head, like bigger brains." Dr Lieberman chewed raw meat to test his . He said: "You chew and you chew and you chew and you chew, and happens." He said that slicing before chewing, "is the technology of all".

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