Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Argues that it was cooking that caused the transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. This title focuses on the 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 labour.

• | By (Author): Richard Wrangham
• | Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: May 27, 2010
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 184668286X
• | ISBN-13: 9781846682865