Podcasts that mention 📚 Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham

so Richard Wrangham talks about that is wonderful book Catching Fire how basically in order to develop the big brain that we have that's supported by such a small gut you need to be eating a lot of me

The guest, William von Hippel, mentions Richard Wrangham and his book 'Catching Fire' in the context of the role of cooking in human evolution.

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Now you write about this book Catching Fire Richard Wrangham argued that what enabled that so if you look at the gut of a gorilla or a chimpanzee in their brain they got a lot of gut for a little bit of brain because it takes a lot of digestion to keep a little bit of brain going we have a tiny gut for a huge brain And Wrangham argues and I think quite rightly that the only way you can achieve that is by releasing more nutrients from your food And the only way you can release more nutrients from your food is by cooking it

Joe mentions the book 'Catching Fire' by Richard Wrangham, and the guest discusses its hypothesis about the role of cooking in human evolution.

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and since then he's published two others catching fire how cooking made us human

The host mentions this as one of the guest's subsequent books, noting its title and subtitle.

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