Richard Wrangham

Argues that it was cooking that caused the transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. This title focuses on the idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labour. Meer

Professor Richard Wrangham advances a provocative new theory of what makes human civilisation special: the nature of our violence. Meer