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Aug. 28, 2009
How Cooking Made Us Human
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| In Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking gave early humans an evolutionary edge, leading to larger brains and more free time. Wrangham discusses his theory, and why Homo sapiens can’t live on raw food alone. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
Guests
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Richard Wrangham
Author, "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human" (Basic Books, 2009)
Director, Kibale Chimpanzee Project, Uganda
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology
Curator of Primate Behavioral Biology
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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