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Authors: Richard Wrangham

Tags: #Cooking, #History, #Political Science, #Public Policy, #Cultural Policy, #Science, #Life Sciences, #Evolution, #Social Science, #Anthropology, #General, #Cultural, #Popular Culture, #Agriculture & Food, #Technology & Engineering, #Fire Science

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climbing ability and
communication
cooking and
fire use
food protection and
Homo heidelbergensis
and
origin time
range extension
sleeping on ground
teeth
time of
“Turkana boy”
walking by
Homo habilis
See also
habilines
Homo heidelbergensis
anatomy/description
animal fat and
brain size/cranial capacity
cooking
cooking techniques
fire use
Homo erectus
and
Homo sapiens
and
hunting/group hunting
time of
Homo sapiens
anatomy/description
brain size/cranial capacity
chewing time
cooking techniques
description
emotions and cooked food
hair loss
Homo heidelbergensis
and
running/overheating and
time of
Homo sapiens
vs. nonhuman primates
climbing
detoxification systems
digestive systems
walking
Homocysteine
Homotherium
Horses
diet and anatomy
group hunting of
How to Do the Raw Food Diet with Joy for Awesome Health and Success
(Westra)
Howell, Edward
Humans.
See Homo sapiens
Hunger
before agriculture development
foraging populations
raw-foodism and
Hunter-gatherers
acidic fruits
“boy-slaves”
capital punishment
cofeeding meaning
communal authority
cooking as social act
cooking techniques
eggs and
marriage importance to men
marriage importance to women
mealtime etiquette/system
private ownership and
raw foods and
satisfaction with life
seasonal foods/shortages and
sexual division of labor description
sharing of men’s foods
starchy foods and
stealing and
violators of social norms
woman offering food to man
women’s food ownership
See also
Sexual division of labor inequalities;
specific groups
Hydrochloric acid
Hyena, spotted
Ik people, Uganda
Ileal digestibility studies
eggs
energy of food
method description
starchy foods
Ileostomy patients
Ileum
Iliad
(Homer)
Inflammatory agents
Insects
cooked foods and
females provisioning males
social insects
Instinctotherapists
Intelligence evolution
deceit
foraging creativity
range size
social brain hypothesis
social competitors
tool use
warfare and
See also
Brains
Intestinal system reduction
bird wing muscles
cooked foods and
diet quality and
energy savings with
expensive tissue hypothesis
muscle mass/brain size
primate brain size and
Intestinal systems
bacteria/protozoa of
calorie use
See also
Digestive system;
specific parts
Inuit people
Copper Inuit
diet/raw foods
domestic abuse
fuel and
sexual division of labor
stealing women
wives importance
Isaacs, Jennifer
Jagger, Mick
Japanese World War II soldiers
Jaw muscles
Jell-O
Jenkins, David
Jenness, Diamond
Joy of Cooking
Kaberry, Phyllis
Kalambo Falls, Zambia archaeological site
Kanzi (bonobo)
Klasies River Mouth cave, South Africa archaeological site
Knife use beginnings
Koebnick, Corinna
Koko (gorilla)
Koobi Fora, Kenya archaeological site
Kummer, Hans
!Kung San hunter-gatherers
cooking techniques diet
Nyae Nyae people
sexual division of labor
tenderness of meat/cooking
way of life
“Lady” derivation
Lancaster, Chet
Lancaster, Jane
Language
beginnings
sexual division of labor and
Large intestine/bowel.
See
Colon
Lawrie, R.A.
Leach, Edmund
Leakey, Jonathan
Leakey, Louis
Leakey, Mary
Lemurs
brain size
sexual differences in food
Lepowsky, Maria
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lichen
Life span
escaping predation and
factors affecting
fire use and
humans vs. great apes
Lions
gender and food
saber-toothed cats
Lipids
Listeria
food poisoning
“Living enzymes”/”life force”
“Lord” derivation
Lucas, Peter
Lysine
Maasai people
Macaques
Maillard compounds
“Man-the-Hunter” hypothesis
australopithecines to humans
brain size increase
description
diet/digestive systems
difficulties with
human social life and
hunting strategies
meat and
predators and
social relations and
Mardesich, Jodi
Marquesan people
Marshall, Lorna
Masseter muscle
Mating systems
cofeeding meaning
feeding system and
sago fork symbolism
stealing women and
See also
Sexual division of labor
Mbuti Pygmies hunter-gatherers mealtime etiquette/system
Pepei
tenderness of meat/cooking
unmarried men
McCance, Robert
McGee, William
Meat-eating hypothesis
See also
“Man-the-Hunter” hypothesis
Megantereon
Mehinaku hunter-gatherers
Merrill, A.L.
Mill, John Stuart
Mimusops bagshawei
Mongol warriors (Tartars)
Mongongo nuts
Monkeys
brain size
mouth size
sexual differences in food
Monodora myristica
Monosaccharides and Atwater convention
Moth (diamondback) larvae
Mountain People, The
(Turnbull)
Mouth
dry mouth
size
tannins and
Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management
Murdock, George
MYH16 gene
Myosin
Nardoo plant
National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Native American hunters
Natural selection description
Nature’s First Law
(Arlin, Dini, Wolfe)
Neanderthals
anatomy/description
cooking/fire control
Nitrogen
molecules containing
protein and
Nutrition convention
See also
Atwater convention
Nutritional biophysics
physical realities and
protein digestion knowledge
See also
Atwater convention
Nyae Nyae people
Oakley, Kenneth
Obesity
ancestral vs. current environment
cooking hypothesis and
digestibility and
digestion costs and
health problems with
physics of food knowledge and
tenderness of food and
thrifty-gene hypothesis and
trends
Oka, Kyoko
Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Oosterwal, Gottfried
Orbito-frontal cortex of brain
Origins of cooking.
See
Cooking origins/time
Osler, William
Paignton Zoo, England
Pangloss
Paranthropus
Parasites
Pascal, Blaise
Patterson, Penny
Pectic polysaccharides
Pemmican
Pepei (Mbuti Pygmy)
Pepsin
Perimysium
Perles, Catherine
Plant foods/early humans
human geographical range and
meat-eating hypothesis and
overview
raw food digestion and
seasonal shortages
Poisoning
food poisoning
from protein
Pollan, Michael
Polo, Marco
Potato products and Maillard compounds
Pottery invention
Pre-australopithecine apes
Predators
fire and
ground sleeping and
Protein
amount digested
amount in food
biochemistry of digestion
digestion costs
digestion knowledge
energy from
energy value variability
mucoproteins in saliva
nitrogen and
poisoning from
tannins and
Protein denaturation
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