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The material in the lecture support the hypothesis that bread was the first grain based food of human. However, the woman in the lecture points out that it was not bread, instead beer, the first food of human derived from grain. So the woman's lecture casts doubt on the text by giving some reasons.

For the first reason, based on the text, early humans started to grind gain because it would be easier to eat grounded wheat than to crush it by tooth. The text even stated the way of grinding wheat by early people, that is by putting it between to heavy stones which is known as mill today. In contrast, the woman on the lecture points out that making beer did not need such toil for people of that time like grinding. The only thing that was needed was to sit down and wait until beer would be ready. She states that when grain is stored, beer will be produced automatically. Moreover, beer is sweeter, softer and even more nutritious than bread.

For the next reason, The text offers baking of ground wheat to make bread as the second stage of human development in grain based food. On the contrary, the woman on the lecture states that people of that time did not have such wisdom to make paste and bake it in order that they make bread. She believes that it is more acceptable to consider them consuming beer which was accessible readily long before they discovered baked bread.

Finally, the text mentions fermentation as the other stage of development of human in making bread. It supposes people of early time, put paste in the open air for the purpose that yeast in the air settle on it and fermentation begins. Therefore, the bread would be easier and more delicious to eat. However, the lecturing woman points out that the yeasts in the air affect the stored wheat first and lead to beer. She thinks that people found fermented wheat as beer far sooner than fermented paste.

In conclusion, beer and baked bread are the two first grain based food of human which the text and lecturer disagree on their order of advent. The text considers bread as the first while the lecturer considers beer the first grain based food of early people.