Cooking. (Cover story)

• Autores: Melinda Wenner
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 301, Nº. 3, 2009, págs. 79-79
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses cooking which is the preparation of food with fire and how it may have changed human behavior. Cooking makes food more edible, delicious, and breaks starches and proteins so that they can be easily digested. Topics include the mixture of archaeological evidence to support biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham's hypothesis that fire was a prerequisite for cooking and the physiological factors that made cooking a necessity, such as the small teeth of early hominids.