Ebook: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Author: Wrangham Richard W
- Tags: Cooking--History, Eating customs--History, Fire--History, POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy, Prehistoric peoples--Food, Roasting (Cooking)--History, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture, Food habits--History, Roasting (Cooking), Fire, Food habits, Hearths Prehistoric, Electronic books, History, Prehistoric peoples -- Food, Roasting (Cooking) -- History, Fire -- History, Food habits -- History, POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE -
- 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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