The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

Fire played a massive role in the development of human society as well as in the physiology of modern humans. For a long time, experts thought that the relationship between humans and fire was forged ...

Somewhere in the deep past, long before cities, scriptures or even structured speech, an ancestor of ours did something ...

Did the modern human species arise after our ancestors started cooking their food? In his new book, "Catching Fire", Richard Wrangham argues that is was the practice of cooking food that was central ...

NEW YORK -- If you're cooking a meal for Thanksgiving or just showing up to feast, you're part of a long human history -- one that's older than our own species. Some scientists estimate our early ...

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, ...

These days, cooking dinner requires no more thought than turning a knob on a stovetop, but for early humans the notion that - simply by applying heat or fire - foods could be transformed into ...

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