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  Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Paperback) By (author) Richard Wrangham

  

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  Short Description for Catching FireArgues 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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  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
  • Published: 01 June 2010
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Social & Cultural Anthropology | Physical Anthropology & Ethnography | Science: General Issues | Popular Science | Food & Drink | General Cookery
  • ISBN 13: 9781846682865 ISBN 10: 184668286X
  • Sales rank: 53,346

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Full description for Catching Fire

• In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. 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 labour. As our ancestors adapted to using fire, humans emerged as 'the cooking apes'. Covering everything from food-labelling and overweight pets to raw-food faddists, "Catching Fire" offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today.