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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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Wrangham's hypothesis that cooking with fire let humans outsource digestion and reallocate calories to building larger brains. Balaji cites it as the foundational example of his thesis that humans co-evolve with technology—fire was our first compiler.
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Balaji repeatedly cites Catching Fire in interviews as the canonical example that humans co-evolve with technology—fire let us 'outsource metabolism' and grow larger brains.
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Recommended in the cited tweet.
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2 SOURCEs- balajianthology.com · Balajis Recommended Reading reading list
- twitter.com tweet
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