Book Reviews
- @isabelleboemeke @tferriss Wrangham makes the case for one form of techno-biological co-evolution. His thesis is that cooking made us human. By outsourcing some human metabolism to the fire pit, natural selection had more slack capacity to work with for brain development. https://t.co/x43BudfeleLink to Tweet
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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.