false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255654995m/6059004.jpg 6059004 4 Until two million years ago, our ancestors were apelike beings the size of chimpanzees. Then <I>Homo erectus</I> was born and we became human. What caused this extraordinary transformation?<br><br>In this stunningly original book, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that <I>cooking</I> created the human race. At the heart of <I>Catching Fire</I> 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. As our ancestors adapted to using fire, humans emerged as “the cooking apes.”<br><br>A groundbreaking new theory of evolution, <I>Catching Fire</I> offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. 6235134 book 25 5 2009 Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human total:74|5:13|4:31|3:21|2:9|1:0| 74 270 324 35 4 0 false false Thu Sep 24 17:24:41 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 18:09:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 07:36:55 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 07:45:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 21:17:29 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 21:17:29 -0700 2009
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Conventional wisdom has it that man first began hunting and only later learned to use fire. Wrangh...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 11:01:37 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 11:06:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 11:10:07 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 20:53:57 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jun 04 08:48:36 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 08:48:36 -0700 2009 Slate: "Historians of the deep human past generally consider cooking to be a recent activity. A significant number of hearths have been unearthed around the 76,000 year mark, and there is diminishing archeological evidence of controlled fire the further back you go. The assumption is that once ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 14:49:08 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 21:33:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 10:06:40 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 08:23:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 10 22:45:42 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 21:29:25 -0800 2009
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
By Richard Wrangham (Perseus Books)
When you avoid cooked food, the results can be brutal. According to one German survey, more than half of female raw foodists were sterile. If people had to live without the modern ameni...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 15:40:04 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 15:42:03 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 16:53:01 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 16:54:29 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6059004