Catching fire
Subtitle: how cooking made us human
By: Richard Wrangham.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780465013623
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples -- Food; Roasting (Cookery) -- History; Fire -- History; Hearths, Prehistoric; Food habits -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Quest for raw-foodists; title: The cook's body; title: The energy theory of cooking; title: When cooking began; title: Brain foods; title: How cooking frees men; title: The married cook; title: The cook's jour.