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          And with Homo sapiens, what makes the species unique in Dr Wrangham's opinion is that its food is so often cooked....

          Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

          book by Richard Wrangham

          Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human is a book by British primatologistRichard Wrangham, published by Profile Books in England, and Basic Books in the US.

          It argues the hypothesis that cooking food was an essential element in the physiological evolution of human beings.

          There is even the theory from Richard Wrangham which says that the human as species can just survive with cooking.

        1. There is even the theory from Richard Wrangham which says that the human as species can just survive with cooking.
        2. Richard Wrangham.
        3. And with Homo sapiens, what makes the species unique in Dr Wrangham's opinion is that its food is so often cooked.
        4. The book is CATCHING FIRE: How cooking made us human by Richard Wrangham.
        5. And with Homo sapiens, what makes the species unique in Dr Wrangham's opinion is that its food is so often cooked.

          6. It was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

          History of the idea

          Eighteenth-century writers noted already that "people cooked their meat, rather than eating it raw like animals". Oliver Goldsmith considered that "of all other animals, we spend the least time in eating; this is one of the great distinctions between us and the brute creation".

          In , Wrangham published the first version of the hypothesis in Current Anthropology.[1] A short outline of the hypothesis was presented by John Allman ()[2] presumably based upon Wrangham ().

          Overview

          Humans (species in the genus Homo) are the only animals that coo