Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
ISBN-10
0465013627
ISBN-13
9780465013623
Series
Catching Fire
Category
Social Science
Pages
309
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Basic Books (AZ)
Author
Richard W. Wrangham

Description

In this stunningly original book, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that "cooking" created the human race. At the heart of "Catching Fire" lies an explosive new idea: The habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labor.

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