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Jun 1, 2009 · Yes, says Richard Wrangham of Harvard University, who argues in a new book that the invention of cooking — even more than agriculture, the eating of meat, or the advent of tools — is what led to the rise of humanity. Wrangham’s book “ Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human ” is published today by Basic Books.
- Harvardgazette
Richard Wrangham, in his book “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human,” proposes a new hypothesis. His cooking hypothesis stems from the idea that the control of fire and the cooking of food lead to the creation of the modern human. The core of Wrangham’s argument is based on the differences between eating raw food versus cooked food.
Wrangham believes cooking, by providing quick calories, allowed human males to focus on hunting, leaving gathering and cooking to the females. This would explain the eventual sexual division of labor and our practice of sharing food. But it also left cooks vulnerable to exploitation. Cooking, he points out, “is a conspicuous and lengthy ...
978-1-84668-285-8. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human is a 2009 book by British primatologist Richard Wrangham, published by Profile Books in England, and Basic Books in the US. It argues the hypothesis that cooking food was an essential element in the physiological evolution of human beings. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson ...
- Richard W. Wrangham
- 2009
Jan 18, 2011 · Wrangham states “whether domestic or wild, mammal or insect, useful or pest, animals adapted to raw diets tend to fare better on cooked food” (pp. 39–40). Wrangham proposes a theory as to why humans are “brainier” than other species, which is rooted in evolutionary logic.
- Haley Moss Dillon, Rachael A. Carmen, Glenn Geher
- 2011
Aug 28, 2009 · Transcript. In Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking gave early humans an advantage over other primates, leading to larger brains and more ...
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Sep 16, 2009 · Wrangham offers us three possibilities, each associated with a major anatomical transition: 1.8 million years ago (the transition into Homo erectus), 800,000 years ago (the transition into archaic humans) and 200,000 years ago (the transition into anatomically modern humans). His pitch is in favor of the first, partly on the grounds that the move into a more open habitat would, for the first ...
