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Catching fire [electronic resource] : how cooking made us human / Richard Wrangham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wrangham, Richard W., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prehistoric peoples--Food.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Roasting (Cooking)--History.
- Roasting (Cooking).
- Fire--History.
- Fire.
- Hearths, Prehistoric.
- Food habits--History.
- Food habits.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, c2009.
- Summary:
- A startling new theory that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species
- Contents:
- Quest for raw-foodists
- The cook's body
- The energy theory of cooking
- When cooking began
- Brain foods
- How cooking frees men
- The married cook
- The cook's journey.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-287) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-46056-0
- 0-7867-4478-2
- OCLC:
- 537783328
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