Did the modern human species arise after our ancestors started cooking their food? In his new book, "Catching Fire", Richard Wrangham argues that is was the practice of cooking food that was central ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Krasny is a professor at Cornell University. Scientists don’t agree on the role of meat in human evolution. The “meat ...

A hotel owner and 10 other people were arrested after police learned that human meat was being cooked into the food at a restaurant in Nigeria. The New York Daily News reports that police received a ...

The title of Wrangham's new book - "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human" - sounds a bit touchy-feely. Perhaps, you think, he has written a meditation on hearth and fellow feeling and s'mores. He ...