Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard W. Wrangham
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Richard W. Wrangham

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Richard W. Wrangham

320 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history science informative reflective slow-paced

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In Catching Fire, one of the most ambitious arguments about human evolution since Darwin's Descent of Man, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham makes the claim that learning to cook food was the hinge on which human evolution turned. Eating coo...

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