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Catching Fire (Hardcover)

By: Richard Wrangham (Author)


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"Animals of the genus Homo are defined by their little mouths, large guts, big brains -- and appetite for bratwurst. This, at least, is the provocative theory of evolution put forth by Dr. Richard Wrangham in his fascinating new book, CATCHING FIRE."

"CATCHING FIRE is a plain-spoken and thoroughly gripping scientific essay that presents nothing less than a new theory of human evolution."

"Wrangham's lucid, accessible treatise...is a tour de force of natural history and a profound analysis of cooking's role in daily life." (starred review)

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Until two million years ago, our ancestors were apelike beings the size of chimpanzees. Then "Homo erectus" was born and we became human. What caused this extraordinary transformation?

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. As our ancestors adapted to using fire, humans emerged as "the cooking apes."

A groundbreaking new theory of evolution, "Catching Fire" offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today.

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Richard Wrangham cooks up an intriguing theory about the evolutionary leap which may have forever separated humanity from our primate ancestors. Wrangham shows how the innovation of using fire to cook food permanently altered the evolutionary development of Homo Erectus, allowing energy and body space once wasted on chewing and digesting to be channeled into the formation of an enlarged brain. This exciting proposal essentially flips the commonly held belief that people created civilization as they progressed, suggesting instead that perhaps we are the result of civilization's evolution.



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