Ebook {Epub PDF} Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard W. Wrangham

v, pages ; 22 cm 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. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human available in Paperback, NOOK Book, Audio MP3 on CD, Audio CD. Add to Wishlist. ISBN ISBN Pub. Date: 09/14/ Publisher: Basic Books. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. by Richard Wrangham | Read Reviews. Paperback View All Available Formats Editions. Current.  · Basic Books, New York, , $ It seems as though fire, hearths, and cooking have suddenly come in from the archaeological cold and taken on an evolutionary life of their own. Suddenly, they are hot property, with probably as many different views as there are authors. In Catching Fire, Richard Wrangham elaborates a view on the origins and.

Dr. Richard Wrangham, renowned primatologist and Ruth B. Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University, goes against the grain in this book with his assertion that the advent of preparing cooked meals, not merely increasing amounts of meat consumed, is the genesis of the list of extraordinary traits our ancient ancestors acquired over the last 2 million years that eventually. Richard Wrangham is a professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University and the author of "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human." Wrangham presents a relatively new theory on human evolution called the "cooking hypothesis." This theory proposes that our brain became significantly larger than our ancestor's because of cooking with fire. Dr. Richard W. Wrangham. Richard Wrangham (PhD, Cambridge University, ) is Ruth B. Moore Research Professor of Biological Anthropology (retired) at Harvard University and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in He has conducted extensive research on primate ecology, nutrition, and social behavior. He is best known for his work on the.

The groundbreaking theory of how fire and food drove the evolution of modern humans. Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the evolution and world-wide dispersal 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. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard W Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human () is a book by British primatologist Richard Wrangham, published by Profile Books in England, and Basic Books in the USA. It argues the hypothesis that cooking food was an essential element in the physiological evolution of human beings. Catching Fire.: Richard Wrangham. Profile Books, Aug 6, - Science - pages. 19 Reviews. In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the.