Catching fire : how cooking made us human / Richard Wrangham
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books , c2009.Description: v, 309 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780465013623
- How cooking made us human
- 394.12 WRA
- GN799.F6 W73 2009
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Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | 394.12 WRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 037160 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-287) and index.
. The cooking hypothesis -- . Quest for raw-foodists -- . The cook's body -- . The energy theory of cooking -- . When cooking began -- . Brain foods -- . How cooking frees men -- . The married cook -- . The cook's journey -- . The well-informed cook.
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.
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