![]() ![]() ![]() In his controversial book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human, he examines the positive influence of the invention of cooking on human evolution. ![]() The evidence was persuasive, but when I read a book of the founder of the theory, Richard Wrangham, Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, I was convinced even more. The film shows several experiments including observations of raw eaters-volunteers, study of African tribes, feeding tests with mice and snakes, some archeological facts. ![]() Нow could it happen that our predecessors received big brains because they started to cook food? Do scientists have enough evidence to make the conclusions? Me neither, until I recently had a chance to watch that BBC video “Did Cooking Made Us Human?” Before that I didn’t know much about human evolution except generally known theories like the Charles Darwin “Theory of Evolution” and the facts that our ancestors lived in caves, made fire and got their food from hunting and gathering. Isn’t it fascinating that the simplest routine of every day life like cooking brought intelligence to our ancestors? Most of us have never even thought about it. ![]()
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