![]() ![]() A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution, Catching Fire will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient origins-or in our modern eating habits. Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestors’ diets, Catching Fire sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage, created the household, and even led to a sexual division of labor. Time once spent chewing tough raw food could be sued instead to hunt and to tend camp. The burden of his argument is that cooking food is a very much odder thing than we have supposed. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking their food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. In Catching Fire, Richard Wrangham elaborates a view on the origins and function of cooking that has been bubbling away on his particular stove for the past several years. When our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity began. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. ![]() ![]() Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. ![]()
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