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Episode 09: Did Cooking Make Us Human?
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18 minutes
Released:
Dec 29, 2015
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Description
We humans have evolved very differently from other primates. Is there one thing responsible for humans becoming human? Some evolutionary biologists think that the way we process our food, namely cooking it, could explain why our species developed so differently from others. Did cooking make us human? Dr. Richard Wrangham of Harvard University and Dr. Rachel Carmody of UCSF and Harvard discuss the impact that cooked food has had on human evolution.
This episode of Origin Stories was produced by Briana Breen and edited by Audrey Quinn. Music by Henry Nagle.
Thanks to Richard Wrangham and Rachel Carmody for sharing their work.
Links
Richard Wrangham's Harvard University Website
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Smithsonian Magazine "Why Fire Made Us Human"
Rachel Carmody's Nature article: Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome
This episode of Origin Stories was produced by Briana Breen and edited by Audrey Quinn. Music by Henry Nagle.
Thanks to Richard Wrangham and Rachel Carmody for sharing their work.
Links
Richard Wrangham's Harvard University Website
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Smithsonian Magazine "Why Fire Made Us Human"
Rachel Carmody's Nature article: Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome
Released:
Dec 29, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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