Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

from lquilter

Intuitively Wrangham's thesis makes a lot of sense, and he does a decent job laying out research that supports his thesis. I suspect that it's not quite that simple, but I found persuasive his account of the nutritional benefits of cooking. His relation of this to evolutionary time is a bit sketc...

from fegolac

This book offers a compelling case for the idea that cooking is the main reason why we evolved from australopithecines to Homo erectus and then to Homo sapiens. It challenges at several points the mainstream notion that meat-eating was a keystone of (at least some parts of) this evolution, for ha...