Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human Wrangham RichardPaperback
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human Wrangham RichardPaperback Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. In a…
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human Wrangham RichardPaperback
Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking.
Once our hominid ancestors began cooking their food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. When our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity began. Time once spent chewing tough raw food could be sued instead to hunt and to tend camp.
Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage, created the household, and even led to a sexual division of labor. Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestors' diets, Catching Fire sheds new light on