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“It’s hard to imagine the leap to Homo erectus without cooking’s nutritional benefits,” says Richard Wrangham. Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office |
Invention of cooking drove evolution of the human species, new book argues“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. |
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