A book of whoppers, so wrong-headed.
For instance:

Keith Thomas wrote:
> Here's Richard Wrangham's latest book "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human" to be 
> published 25 May.
> 
  > Here is the publisher's blurb:
> 
> "Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence 
> of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability.
?

> But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham 
> presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the 
> result of cooking.

The result of cooking has been devolution, if anything.

> In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, 
> Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the 
> key factor in human evolution.

It made life nasty, brutish and short.

> When our ancestors adapted to 
> using fire, humanity began.  Once our hominid ancestors began
> cooking their food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain 
> grew.

Whopper! Guts shrink when we eat raw zero carb. Neolithic brains are 
shrunken.


Time once spent chewing tough raw food could be sued
> instead to hunt and to tend camp.

Was used instead for the grinding toil of neolithic farming.


  Cooking became the basis for
> pair bonding and marriage, created the household, and even led 
> to a sexual division of labor.

Really! That means that short female legs and big bum muscles are 
designed for pulling the plow, while he steered.

  Tracing the contemporary
> implications of our ancestors’ diets, Catching Fire sheds new light 
> on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species 
> we are today.

A hunting party needs more social skills and intelligence than farming.


  A pathbreaking new theory of human evolution,
> Catching Fire will provoke controversy and fascinate anyone 
> interested in our ancient origins—or in our modern eating habits."
> 

Certainly path-breaking. Wrong path, though.

William