The Food hypothesis of human evolution was developed by Richard Wrangham, author of "Catching Fire". It was covered recently by my sciblings, including Erin, Razib and Ethan. It was also the topic on last week's Bloggingheads.tv.
But now, you can hear the interview with Wrangham on the World Science podcast, then go over to the forum and ask him questions. He'll be checking in the forums and responding for the next week or so.
Then let me know what you thought about it - the topic, the podcast, the forum.
[Reminder that I serve as an outside advisor to World Science]
Update: Wow! I did not know that one of my SciBlings, Greg Laden is one of the co-authors of the Food Hypothesis - see the paper here - see also Greg's posts about it, e.g., here.
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Richard Wrangham has done a podcast over at World Science (see my review of
Science has a fascinating review about the history of cooking and its relation to human evolution.
Mole rats are a pretty ugly, obscure bunch of creatures. They live underground in Africa, where they use their giant teeth to gnaw at roots.
Bloggingheads.tv has John Horgan interviewing Richard Wrangham of Harvard on a variety of topics related to his new book Catching Fire.
Thanks for the mention, and have a great trip to the Old World!