Claude Levi-Strauss, “The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to the Science of Mythology”, 1964 was an influence of anthropologist Richard Wrangham, “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human”, 2009. Human beings are “creatures of the flame”; and, transforming “raw nature” into “cooked culture” was the first human trait (followed in evolution by “speech”).
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