Reading Comprehension (RC) | Re: It might reasonably have been expected that the adoption of cooking by

Implications are what we might expect to observe given something else, which may have been claimed, theorized, or observed.

In this case, the claim mentioned appears to be "Selection for such efficiency, we suggest, led to an inability to survive on raw-food diets in the wild."

Basically, all the points made in the second and third paragraphs are implications of that claim, and some examples of the implications are thefollowing:

Important questions therefore arise concerning what limits the ability of humans to utilize raw food.

the decrease in tooth and jaw size that started around 100,000 years ago may prove to result from later modifications in cooking technique

Testing between the cooking and raw-meat models for understanding human digestive anatomy is thereforewarranted.

Regarding why the implications are called "empirical implications," "empirical"
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