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]]> By: Bill http://universitypressbooks.com/catching-fire-how-cooking-made-us-human-by-richard-wrangham-basic-books-2009/catching-fire-how-cooking-made-us-human-by-richard-wrangham-basic-books-2009/comment-page-1#comment-10 Bill Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:16:33 +0000 http://universitypressbooks.com/?p=223#comment-10 Sorayya -- I read a review of Catching fire and another book (I think in the NYRB) that speculated that cooking with fire advanced human evolution by the need for women to put down their babies while cooking with fire, causing an advance in language by the attempt to reassure their anxious and noisy babies through increasingly complex sounds rather than contact, a kind of motherese, perhaps a beginning of our mother tongue. UPB has a copy of Marion Levy's OUR MOTHER-TEMPER, which may touch on the same phenomena. Bill McClung Sorayya — I read a review of Catching fire and another book (I think in the NYRB) that speculated that cooking with fire advanced human evolution by the need for women to put down their babies while cooking with fire, causing an advance in language by the attempt to reassure their anxious and noisy babies through increasingly complex sounds rather than contact, a kind of motherese, perhaps a beginning of our mother tongue.

UPB has a copy of Marion Levy’s OUR MOTHER-TEMPER, which may touch on the same phenomena. Bill McClung

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