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Description: Thanks to Vlogbrothers for their sponsorship of this video Did cooking make us evolve? Why is it that only humans cook. If you think about it we are the only animals on Earth that cook our food before eating it. Why do we cook? In this video we're going to look at the book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham. He explains the biological and evolutionary benefits of cooking our food. Why did we climb down from the trees and start gathering around the fire? Let’s find out CHECK OUT SMART BY DESIGN'S VIDEO ON WHY WE WALK UPRIGHT ------ youtube.com/watch?v=LzEOYgXodGI&feature=youtu.be SOURCES (Affiliate Links) Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (amzn.to/2gMhvCY) Other Sources gregladen.com/wordpress/wp-content/pdf/WranghamEtAl.pdf soar.wichita.edu/bitstream/handle/10057/3896/LAJ_2010_21-26.pdf?sequence=1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6248975.stm news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/11/why-cooking-counts thecrimson.com/article/2011/11/9/research-cooking-energy livescience.com/15688-man-cooking-homo-erectus.html MERCHANDISE teespring.com/en-GB/stores/cogito-store EQUIPMENT (AFFILIATE LINKS) Blue Microphones Snowball USB Microphone (amzn.to/2w6tgct) If you found this video entertaining please feel free to leave a like Subscribe if you want to be updated whenever I release a video Please comment and let me know what you think Check out my previous video youtube.com/watch?v=he-6G0S1NQY Follow me on twitter @CogitoEdu Or Reddit r/cogitoedu Or Facebook @CogitoYT Intro by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Music by Epidemic Sound: epidemicsound.com/creator