There have been many writers, from Brillat-Savarin to modern-day food anthropologists, who have remarked that cooking is a defining aspect of our humanity. These assertions have typically formed the ...

In the closing chapter of his thought-provoking book The Goodness Paradox, Richard Wrangham observes that he is patently opposed to capital punishment in modern society. But the preceding chapters ...

In the ancestral environment, people who were viewed as threats were ostracized, outcast, or outright murdered. The renowned Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham discusses this at length in his ...

The cooking hypothesis -- Quest for raw-foodists -- The cook's body -- The energy theory of cooking -- When cooking began -- Brain foods -- How cooking frees men -- The married cook -- The cook's ...

Male aggression and sexual coercion of females in primates / Martin N. Muller, Sonya M. Kahlenberg, and Richard W. Wrangham -- Evolution of sexual coercion with respect to sexual selection and sexual ...

Lying on his living room floor staring into the flames, Harvard professor Richard Wrangham was thinking about the next morning's lecture on evolution when he had his "Eureka" moment. In his book, ...

In Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking gave early humans an advantage over other... Did Cooking Give Humans An Evolutionary Edge? PAUL RAEBURN, ...