Did Cooking Give Humans An Evolutionary Edge?

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112334465&ft=1&f=1007

In Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking gave early humans an advantage over other primates, leading to larger brains and more free time. Wrangham discusses his theory, and why Homo sapiens can’t live on raw food alone.

I thought this was a real interesting story about food.

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  1. Temple
    Temple says:

    So cool. My take is, if cooking made us human, those who went to culinary school must be SUPER HUMAN. I knew it!

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