Sublime

“Nós somos”, conclui Wrangham, “mais cozinheiros do que carnívoros.”

Or was it? There was a serpent in the hunter-gatherer

Contrary to earlier assumptions, hunters and gatherers—even today in the marginal refugia they inhabit—are nothing like the famished, one-day-away-from-starvation desperados of folklore. Hunters and gathers have, in fact, never looked so good—in terms of their diet, their health, and their leisure. Agriculturalists, on the contrary, have never look

Comida cozida é melhor do que crua”, diz Wrangham, “pois a vida prioriza a energia” — e comida cozida garante mais energia.

Edward O. Wilson, “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”

humans seem to have genetically evolved a system that responds adaptively to early life cues that are used,

The balance of power is likely to shift when physical strength no longer decides the outcome of every fight. That’s essentially what happened, Boehm suggests, as our ancestors developed better weapons for hunting and butchering beginning around five hundred thousand years ago, when the archaeological record begins to show a flowering of tool and we

In comparison with the wolf, the ape is addicted to sex.