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Richard W. Wrangham, Currier’s House Master since 2008, has studied man’s hairier cousin—the chimpanzee—since his days as an undergraduate at Oxford University. His book, “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human,” published last May, suggests that modern man owes his unique evolutionary trajectory to his ability to cook his food. FM caught him in a rare free moment to find out more about his time in Africa, his book, and the time he sampled raw monkey...
...couple may have begun their new lives together on the cusp of a new year, but even as they replace Professor Richard W. Wrangham and Elizabeth A. Ross as Currier House Masters this fall, they will not stray from their initial raison d’être: to share their experiences with others and promote human rights and social justice...
Professor of Biological Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham lectured on how humans’ abilities to cook signalled the evolution to the modern human...
...We’re not giving up on Currier at all, and we’ll be back for Commencement to see the current juniors when they are seniors,” Wrangham said...
...Wrangham and Ross began their tenure as House Masters...