TY - BOOK AU - Wrangham,Richard W. TI - Catching fire: how cooking made us human SN - 9780465013623 (alk. paper) U1 - 394.1/2 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Basic Books KW - Prehistoric peoples KW - Food KW - Roasting (Cooking) KW - History KW - Fire KW - Hearths, Prehistoric KW - Food habits N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-287) and index; The cooking hypothesis --; 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 --; The well-informed cook N2 - In this stunningly original book, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that "cooking" created the human race. At the heart of "Catching Fire" lies an explosive new idea: The habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labor ER -