Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

✍ Scribed by Richard Wrangham

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Series: Anthropology online
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

Abstract:

A startling new theory that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 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.

✦ Subjects

Prehistoric peoples;Food;Roasting (Cooking);History;Fire;History;Hearths, Prehistoric;Food habits;History;POLITICAL SCIENCE;Public Policy;Cultural Policy;SOCIAL SCIENCE;Anthropology;Cultural;SOCIAL SCIENCE;Popular Culture;Fire;Food habits;Roasting (Cooking);Cooking;History;Eating customs;History