Professor Richard Wrangham of Harvard University’s Anthropology Department has just published Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. The book is filled this great insights into human evolution and social behavior. Wrangham shows how cooking food provided humans with excess calories that could support increased human intelligence rather than digesting food. Moreover, it served as the foundation for the pair bond between men and women and, ultimately, the household.
It is an exceptional work and is fully consistent with Wrangham’s outstanding scholarship which includes Demonic Males and Chimpanzee Cultures. The work also captures the importance of understanding human social behavior through the lens of human evolution.
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