{"id":67,"date":"2009-03-15T17:17:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.foodux.org\/?p=67"},"modified":"2009-03-15T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T17:17:47","slug":"whats-cooking-the-evolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Cooking? The Evolutionary Role of Cookery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.foodux.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/7-0809ST1.png\" alt=\"7-0809ST1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Be human, start cooking! &#8211; &#8220;Cooking is a human universal. No society is without it. No one other than a few faddists tries to survive on raw food alone. And the consumption of a cooked meal in the evening, usually in the company of family and friends, is normal in every known society. Moreover, without cooking, the human brain (which consumes 20-25% of the body\u2019s energy) could not keep running. Dr Wrangham thus believes that cooking and humanity are coeval.&#8221; &#8211; From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13139619\">article<\/a> in The Econonomist on Richard Wrangham&#8217;s thesis (anthropologist &#8211; Harvard University)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be human, start cooking! &#8211; &#8220;Cooking is a human universal. No society is without it. No one other than a few faddists tries to survive on raw food alone. And the consumption of a cooked meal in the evening, usually in the company of family and friends, is normal in every known society. Moreover, without &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foodux.org\/?p=67\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s Cooking? The Evolutionary Role of Cookery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodux.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}