Did the modern human species arise after our ancestors started cooking their food? In his new book, "Catching Fire", Richard Wrangham argues that is was the practice of cooking food that was central ...

In Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking gave early humans an advantage over other... Did Cooking Give Humans An Evolutionary Edge? PAUL RAEBURN, ...

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These days, cooking dinner requires no more thought than turning a knob on a stovetop, but for early humans the notion that - simply by applying heat or fire - foods could be transformed into ...

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Brain tissue is metabolically expensive. Consequently, the evolution of humans’ large brains must have occurred via concomitant shifts in energy expenditure and intake. Proposed mechanisms include ...