CATCHING FIRE

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, a [...]
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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.