Cover art for Catching Fire
Published
Profile Books, May 2010
ISBN
9781846682865
Format
Softcover, 320 pages
Dimensions
19.6cm × 12.8cm × 2.8cm

Catching Fire How Cooking Made Us Human by

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At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new 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. As our ancestors adapted to using fire, humans emerged as 'the cooking ape'.

Covering everything from food-labelling and overweight pets to raw-food faddists, Catching Fire offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today.

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