Early Human life forms, pre-historic hominoids, historic humans, all faced one thing in common. Starvation. Why? Other Life Forms and development more suited and adaptable to existing food sources? Food sources available not suited to the human palate? Couldn't cope with the heat in the kitchen? Ended up being some other Species Dinner for tonight? Incompetent and stupid food gatherers? Starved for two million years before the micro-wave came along. True. westwind.