In Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking gave early humans an advantage over other... Did Cooking Give Humans An Evolutionary Edge? PAUL RAEBURN, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Krasny is a professor at Cornell University. Scientists don’t agree on the role of meat in human evolution. The “meat ...

For both dietary and environmental reasons, we’re rethinking our consumption of meat. But for earlier humans, meat consumption appeared to be a critical, yet somewhat poorly understood, contributor to ...