In Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew; and pair bonding, marriage, the household, and even the sexual division of labor emerged. A pathbreaking theory of human evolution, Catching Fire will fascinate a...(展开全部)

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. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the...(展开全部)

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. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the...(展开全部)

In Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. Once our hominid ancestors began cooking, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew; and pair bonding, marriage, the household, and even the sexual division of labor emerged. A pathbreaking theory of human evolution, Catching Fire will fascinate a...(展开全部)

理查德·兰厄姆（Richard Wrangham) 著名动物学家和演化人类学家，哈佛大学 Ruth B. Moore 生物人类学教授，美国艺术与科学院院士，英国国家学术院院士，麦克阿瑟天才奖得主。 兰厄姆是国际知名的野生黑猩猩研究专家，在动物社会生态学和人类社会与政治行为演化等领域做出了重要的理论和实证贡献。除了本书，他还著有《人性悖论：人类进化中的美德与暴力》《恶魔般的雄性：类人猿与人类暴力的起源》等。

理查德·兰厄姆（Richard Wrangham) 著名动物学家和演化人类学家，哈佛大学 Ruth B. Moore 生物人类学教授，美国艺术与科学院院士，英国国家学术院院士，麦克阿瑟天才奖得主。 兰厄姆是国际知名的野生黑猩猩研究专家，在动物社会生态学和人类社会与政治行为演化等领域做出了重要的理论和实证贡献。除了本书，他还著有《人性悖论：人类进化中的美德与暴力》《恶魔般的雄性：类人猿与人类暴力的起源》等。

From the senior White House correspondent for The New York Times comes the definitive history of the Bush and Cheney White House—a tour de force narrative of those dramatic and controversial eight years. Taking readers into the offices of the West Wing and the cabins of Air Force One, Peter Baker tells the gripping inside story of the Bush and Cheney era. Theirs was th...(展开全部)

The most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction, Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession. River of Fire interweaves...(展开全部)