I braai, therefor I am
Date
2010-02
Authors
Nasson, Bill
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
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Publisher
AOSIS OpenJournals
Abstract
This is a big book about how and why the human world has come to be the way it is. Notwithstanding
a glib cover endorsement from celebrity chef, Nigella Lawson, Catching Fire bears comparison to other
modern classics on evolutionary biology and environmental determinism, such as Stephen Jay Gould’s
Mismeasurement of Man (1981) and Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel (1997). A British primatologist
and Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University, Richard Wrangham, has spent a long
time chewing over the behavioural ecology of apes and, as this volume reveals, he has not been taken in
completely by his tree-hopping research subjects.
Description
The original publication is available at http://www.sajs.co.za/
Keywords
Fire, Book review, Catching fire, Richard Wrangham, Cooking
Citation
Nasson, B. 2010. I braai, therefor I am. South African Journal of Science, 106(1/2), 8, doi: 10.4102/sajs.v106i1/2.124.