Catching Fire How Cooking Made Us Human

ISBN-10: 0465020410

ISBN-13: 9780465020416

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard Wrangham

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Description:

In this stunningly original book, a renowned primatologist argues that cooking created the human race. A groundbreaking new theory of evolution, "Catching Fire" offers a startlingly original argument about how we have come to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today.

Book details

List price: $22.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 9/7/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction: 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


Epilogue: The Well-Informed Cook


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index