#  Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (2010) 

 



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 **January 27, 2010** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

 



 

#### Book signing/Program with Richard Wrangham

In his book, Catching Fire, Richard Wrangham, Professor of Biological   
Anthropology at Harvard, puts forth the bold theory that our Paleolithic Homo ancestors tamed fire and began cooking 1.8 million years ago, much earlier than conventionally believed. Wrangham discussed how cooking started a revolution in human evolution, which drove large-scale changes in our physiology, behavior, and cognition and has defined our species to this very day. Photo by Jim Harrison.



 

 



 

 

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