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Catching Fire - Richard Wrangham

Catching Fire

How Cooking Made Us Human
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2009 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84668-285-8 (ISBN)
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Argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. This book explains that 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 labour.
In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. 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 labour. As our ancestors adapted to using fire, humans emerged as "the cooking apes".

Covering everything from food-labelling and overweight pets to raw-food faddists, Catching Fire offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today.

"This notion is surprising, fresh and, in the hands of Richard Wrangham, utterly persuasive ... Big, new ideas do not come along often in evolution these days, but this is one." -Matt Ridley, author of Genome

Richard Wrangham is the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and Curator of Primate Behavioural Biology at the Peabody Museum. He is the co-author of Demonic Males and co-editor of Chimpanzee Cultures. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.9.2009
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 233 mm
Gewicht 474 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Allgemeines / Lexika
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-84668-285-1 / 1846682851
ISBN-13 978-1-84668-285-8 / 9781846682858
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