“If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys.” Orson Welles, actor, director, producer, writer (1915-1985) My big Homo-sapiens brain caught on fire while reading Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (2009), by Harvard primatologist Richard Wrangham. The truth is this: Catching Fire is one of the most […]

Categories: Book Reviews, Food Science, Homo Erectus, Homo Habilis, Meat • Tags: Anthropology, Catching Fire, Cooking, Cooking hypothesis, Early Man, Homo Erectus, Richard Wrangham