Ebook: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Author: Richard Wrangham
- Tags: Prehistoric peoples, Food, Roasting (Cooking), History, Fire, History, Hearths Prehistoric, Food habits, History, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Popular Culture, Fire, Food habits, Roasting (Cooking), Cooking, History, Eating customs, History
- Series: Anthropology online
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Basic Books
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
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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A startling new theory that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species Read more...
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