Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Format: audiobook
ASIN: 13345275
Publisher: Audible, Inc.
Minutes: 7
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Science,
Biology,
Health,
Anthropology,
Evolution,
Cooking,
Nutrition
Wrangham's thesis is that fire is what made modern humans. We didn't just learn to use fire because we were so smart: using fire actually gave us an evolutionary advantage which led to our being smart. In a nutshell: cooked food is more nutritious and easier to eat, thus allowing our evolutionary an...