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Catching fire : how cooking made us human /

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 huma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wrangham, Richard W., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2009]
Subjects:
Prehistoric peoples > Food.
Roasting (Cooking) > History.
Fire > History.
Hearths, Prehistoric.
Food habits > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The cooking hypothesis
  • Quest for raw-foodists
  • The cook's body
  • The energy theory of cooking
  • When cooking began
  • Brain foods
  • How cooking frees men
  • The married cook
  • The cook's journey
  • The well-informed cook.