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...Wrangham??s new book “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human," published in May 2009, delves further into the implications of cooking food...
...mailed out in our newsletter. Like drawing nudes? The Office for the Arts offers a figure drawing class in Currier. Like meeting famous professors in your House? Attend events held by our temporarily departing House Masters, biological anthropology Professor Richard W. Wrangham??and Elizabeth A. Ross, for Currier Conversations...
...Chillingly,” says Wrangham in an email, “‘Fight Club’ treats violence as fun, whether one-on-one conflicts or war-like gang attacks.” Violence, and the motivation underlying it, has been a large part of Professor Wrangham??s research over the past twenty years at Harvard University. “Wrangham has spent years studying chimpanzee cultures in the wild and comparing those cultures to human ones,” explains Taylor-Mead...
According to Taylor-Mead, Professor Wrangham??s appearance at “Science on Screen” will provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to audiences. “At home, audiences won’t get this surprising combination of edu-tainment,” Taylor-Mead explains. “[They’ll get] a private seminar only shared with 400 people sitting together in the dark eating the best popcorn in greater Boston...
...consider a link between eating and evolution. “I would go for hours, all day, watching chimpanzees and relying only on their food. I realized that we are not well adapted to eat chimp foods,” said Wrangham. The cooking thesis has raised excitement among Wrangham??s colleagues, according to Lieberman. “We take behaviors like cooking and food preparation for granted,” Lieberman said, “but we are obligate cookers. To be honest, nobody had really thought about it before Richard...