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Catching Fire - How Cooking Made Us Human (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Catching Fire - How Cooking Made Us Human (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man , the existence of humans
has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in
Catching Fire , renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a
startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of
cooking. In a ground-breaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows
that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human
evolution. When our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity
began. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking their food, the
human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. 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 labour.
Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestors' diets,
Catching Fire sheds new light on how we came to be the social,
intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A pathbreaking new
theory of human evolution, Catching Fire will provoke controversy
and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient origins- or in our
modern eating habits.
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