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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Presented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History
January 27, 2010
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In his latest book, Catching Fire, Harvard biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham 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 will discuss 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. The...
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission Info:
Free and open to the public.
General Day and Time Info:
6:00pm
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