CATCHING FIRE (Basic, 2009)
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The British anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues that the discovery of fire, about
1.8 million years ago, caused a major evolutionary change.
Humans started cooking, the first and (so far) only animal to do so,
which resulted in the ability to extract more calories to support big brains.
This fueled the evolution of both the body (that could do survive with smaller jaws, teeth and guts)
and the brain (that could grow virtually at will). The importance of cooking had an impact on the evolution of society.
Cooking is not only a product of human evolution, but the enabling factor of it.
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