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Argues that it was cooking that caused the transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. This title focuses on the 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 labour.
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Catching Fire, Richard Wrangham
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- Catching Fire
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Richard Wrangham
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 184668286X
- ISBN13
- 9781846682865
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Science & Math, Natural sciences, Biology, Science, Food, Anthropology, Evolution
- Original title
- Catching fire
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- Argues that it was cooking that caused the transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. This title focuses on the 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 labour.