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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Science / Anthropology
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 Srinivasan
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.