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Did cooking make us evolve? Why is it that only humans cook. If you think about it we are the only animals on Earth that cook our food before eating it. Why do we cook? In this video we’re going to look at the book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham. He explains the biological and evolutionary benefits of cooking our food.
Why did we climb down from the trees and start gathering around the fire? Let’s find out
CHECK OUT SMART BY DESIGN’S VIDEO ON WHY WE WALK UPRIGHT
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (http://amzn.to/2gMhvCY)
Other Sources
http://gregladen.com/wordpress/wp-content/pdf/WranghamEtAl.pdf
https://soar.wichita.edu/bitstream/handle/10057/3896/LAJ_2010_21-26.pdf?sequence=1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6248975.stm
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/11/why-cooking-counts/
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/11/9/research-cooking-energy/
https://www.livescience.com/15688-man-cooking-homo-erectus.html
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