Volume 56, Number 16 · October 22, 2009
Freedom Through Cooking
By Steven Mithen
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
by Richard Wrangham
Basic Books, 309 pp., $26.95
Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language
by Dean Falk
Basic Books, 240 pp., $26.95
Who's cooking your dinner? Who's looking after your kids? If you are a man, it is probably the woman—or women—in your life. You know that women mainly do the daily domestic grind. And so it has been, not just throughout history but also throughout the last two million years of human evolution, according to Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire, and Dean Falk, author of Finding Our Tongues.
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