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The Campfire Of Civilization?

By The Daily Dish
Jun 7 2009, 7:27 AM ET

biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham's new book on cooking:

The ambition of Wrangham's theory gives it great appeal: Cooking is a powerful biological force and the universal activity around which the rest of human historythe households and tribes, the migrations and wars, the religion and sciencearranged itself.


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