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Around 50 members of the Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior community gathered in the Harvard-Yenching Library yesterday afternoon to hear biological anthropology professor Richard W. Wrangham explain how the cultural invention of cooking food has contributed to human evolution...
Contrary to conventional wisdom, which regards cooking as biologically unimportant, Wrangham said that cooking’s contribution to the evolution of human beings cannot be overlooked...
...Wrangham explained that humans have adapted physiologically to eating cooked foods...
Human guts are too small to digest nutritionally poor plant matter and human molars are too small for tough raw foods, Wrangham said...
Richard W. Wrangham: The story of “Catching Fire” is the story of what cooking does for humans, and it comes into three parts. First of all, it shows that even though nutritional scientists have not given very much attention to this, the first big impact of cooking is to increase the amount of energy we get out of our food. This second thing it does is draw attention to the fact that humans appear to be biologically adapted to eating their food cooked. And the third part of the book looks at what...