That’s in part because harnessing fire for food was a key step for human evolution. Cooking food makes it easier for the body to digest and get nutrients, explained David Braun, an archaeologist ...

Could primates have evolved into humans without knowing how to cook? For 10 years, Harvard University primatologist Richard Wrangham has gathered data that he says show that the discovery of ...

Evolution Through Cuisine: How Cooking Food and Gathering for Feasts Made Us Human Based on how human ancestors' brains and bodies developed, scientists estimate that cooking skills would have had ...

How cooking makes you a man Anthropologist Richard Wrangham has a provocative theory on human evolution. It starts with food and an open flame ...

With the development of agriculture beginning about 10,000 years ago, the art of cooking began to change the way in which humans prepared food in many different regions of the world. It was not until ...

Evolution Through Cuisine: How Cooking Food and Gathering for Feasts Made Us Human Based on how human ancestors' brains and bodies developed, scientists estimate that cooking skills would have had ...

Cooking food marked more than just a lifestyle change for our ancestors. It helped fuel our evolution, give us bigger brains and would become the centerpiece of the feasting rituals that brought ...