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Why Do People Cook?

Posted by Robyn Lee, February 19, 2009

The Economist takes a look into the evolutionary role of cooking with the help of anthropologist Dr. Richard Wrangham of Harvard University. Wrangham believes "that cooking and other forms of preparing food are humanity's 'killer app': the evolutionary change that underpins all of the other—and subsequent—changes that have made people such unusual animals."

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