The Raw and the Stolen

@article{Wrangham1999TheRA,
  title={The Raw and the Stolen},
  author={Richard W. Wrangham and James Holland Jones and Greg Laden and David R. Pilbeam and Nancy Lou Conklin-Brittain},
  journal={Current Anthropology},
  year={1999},
  volume={40},
  pages={567 - 594}
}
Cooking is a human universal that must have had widespread effects on the nutrition, ecology, and social relationships of the species that invented it. The location and timing of its origins are unknown, but it should have left strong signals in the fossil record. We suggest that such signals are detectable at ca. 1.9 million years ago in the reduced digestive effort (e.g., smaller teeth) and increased supply of food energy (e.g., larger female body mass) of early Homo erectus. The adoption of… 
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