One day 10 years ago, Richard Wrangham was lying in front of the fire in his home thinking about human evolution. People like to think in front of fires, and Wrangham, a Harvard professor of biological anthropology, likes to think about human evolution, so it wasn't really a special occasion. Then Wrangham put the two together. (Full article: 927 words)

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