Invention of cooking drove evolution of the human species, new book argues
Monday, June 1, 2009 - 15:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
“You are what you eat.” Can these pithy words explain the evolution of the human species?Yes, says Richard Wrangham of Harvard University, who argues in a new book that the invention of cooking — even more than agriculture, the eating of meat, or the advent of tools — is what led to the rise of humanity.read more