Fire: The energy revolution
The Documentary Podcast
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The Cooking Ape
Richard rangham is a professor of anthropology at harvard university and rachel's long time collaborator. He believes that by unlocking more energy from our food, we completely transformed our biology. And he's pretty sure allbegan with the evolution of homo erectus. The evidence for that is that the ribs, instead of flaring outwards, as they do in the apes to accommodate the large guts, are relatively flat and go straight downwards.
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