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Catching Fire

How Cooking Made Us Human

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Catching Fire

De: Richard Wrangham
Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
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Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking.

In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution. When our ancestors adapted to using fire, humanity began. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking their food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. Time once spent chewing tough raw food could be used instead to hunt and to tend camp. Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage, created the household, and even led to a sexual division of labor.

Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestors diets, Catching Fire sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution, Catching Fire will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone interested in our ancient origins - or in our modern eating habits.

©2009 Richard Wrangham (P)2009 Audible, Inc. Antropología Arqueología Ciencia Ciencias Biológicas Ciencias Sociales Comida y Vino Evolución Evolución y Genética Gastronomía Tradición Oriente Medio

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There are good reasons why, given a choice between raw and cooked food, most primates - including monkeys, chimpanzees, and the vast majority of humans - prefer their food cooked. For starters, cooked food is easier to eat and richer in both flavor and nutrients. Although we humans aren’t the only animals who would rather eat our food like this, we are the only ones who get to make the choice. In Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, author Richard Wrangham argues that the extra energy provided by the cooking process paved the way for the evolutionary transition from ape to man.

Though the purpose of his book is to illustrate this “cooking hypothesis”, Wrangham’s skill as a writer obviates the need for compromise between entertaining and informing his audience. His narrative is replete with fascinating examples and well-chosen anecdotes, like the story of Dr. Beaumont, whose significant contributions to our understanding of digestion came largely from his experiments on St. Martin, a patient whose life he had saved after St. Martin was accidentally shot. The incident left Beaumont’s patient with a permanent hole in his stomach - and a window through which to view gastric processes.

Kevin Parseau delivers a wonderful narration of Catching Fire that is consistently in harmony with the book’s tone and content. Parseau has a deep, musical voice and an unhurried but lively sense of pacing. His reading contains an element of wonder common to the greatest science and nature narrators, without ever taking on an undesirable, zealous character.

Wrangham’s compelling scientific discourse is, in itself, a little like cooked food. Significant studies from the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, and nutrition are carefully distilled and broken down. Each of Wrangham’s arguments is carefully thought-out, rich in a variety of evidence, and clearly presented - in short, his ideas are both easy to digest and substantive, and the result is an intellectually satisfying, fascinating exploration of what makes us human. –Emily Elert

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  • Top 10 Books of 2009 (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)
  • Books of the Year 2009 (The Economist)
"[A] fascinating study...Wrangham's lucid, accessible treatise ranges across nutritional science, Paleontology and studies of ape behavior and hunter-gatherer societies; the result is a tour de force of natural history and a profound analysis of cooking's role in daily life." ( Publishers Weekly)
" Catching Fire is convincing in argument and impressive in its explanatory power. A rich and important book." (Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and The Omnivore's Dilemma)
Fascinating Evolutionary Theory • Compelling Scientific Arguments • Perfect Narration • Thought-provoking Insights

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Being female and observing females of many species, I have found that female equates to interest in food and male equates to interest in something else, need I say? Cooking backburnered as unimportant even to the point of it being required female activity is appraised in a whole new light and well proved up in this awesome book. Hey it is cooking that got us big brains, you know that lowly female activity? It makes me laugh! I think the genius author of this book will probably be excommunicated from the male religion of male supremacy. I also thought his points about why women CHOSE to be mated is also very important as well. Anyone who cannot see the importance and genius of this book and the importance of every thought in it, well, needs more cooked food and non-processed cooked food.

On a personal note, I tried a raw food diet and gave it up and now I know why and I don't have to feel guilty that I do not serve up my dogs a raw food diet instead of opening a can.

the most awesome book I have ever read (heard)

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Really interesting insights in early adoption of fire from our ancestors and their learning of cooking as an activity that shaped our biological development, social behaviour and so many other aspects of ourselves. A must listen to.

Really interesting insights

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I liked it a lot, nice follow. It is a very interesting topic. it is worth your time.

very informative

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This book blew my mind. I cannot stop thinking about this book. I can not stop talking about this book. Fantastic research and reporting.

Fire the 🐐 no 🧢

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The subject seemed odd at first but became really believable with the careful presentation of arguments and supporting research. The narrator Kevin Pariseau was perfect for this book; I wish he had been the narrator of many of the other non-fiction books I've heard. The book gets a little slow in places and there is some repetition but overall it was a great listen.

Fascinating and the narrator was perfect for this.

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A fresh perspective on the origins of humanity and the current struggle to control epidemic obesity.

Very interesting stuff.

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This book was easy for a person like me to understand (one anthropology class in university) but well researched and structured. Very academic, so a little dry at parts but I liked the information so much it doesn't matter. Really interesting ideas that have implications for social policy, science, and our own individual diets.

Fascinating - relevant - accessible academic

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I wish it would have covered the science of fire making. At least one chapter. Overall, an excellent book!

Needs a chapter on the science of fire making.

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Really wonderful scientific exposition of a very fascinating theory.
The language is clear and the examples simple but to the point, and especially it is absolutely not redundant when giving them.
The last chapter is a very welcome bonus linking the main content of the book with our everyday experience.

The performance of Pariseau is functional and clear, without special effects but not dull. The recording quality is not perfect though.

Wonderful exposition of a fascinating theory

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Informative, yet somewhat repetitive. The book provides some new angles to approach the evolution of humans and the cultural norms that bind them.

Food for thought

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