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The human species is the only one that cooks its food, a practice that has been key in the great development of our brain and our intelligence. But it is also the animal species, together with chimpanzees, in which the greatest cruelty and violence towards others exists.

Eduard Punset speaks with the Anthropologist Richard Wrangham, from Harvard University, in search of the origins of our intelligence and the most human forms of behaviour. With a comic touch, the sitcom “Homos and women” aims to highlight the key concepts described by Wrangham.

For more information on Richard Wrangham:

* ‘Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human‘, by Richard Wrangham.
* ‘Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence‘, by Richard Wrangham.
* ‘The Evolution of Cooking‘, interview between John Brockman and Wrangham.
* ‘The Human Recipe‘, answer by Wrangham to Edge.org’s yearly question (‘What have you changed your mind about?’).
* ‘Cooking Up Bigger Brains‘, article in Scientific American on Wrangham’s idea that the human brain was able to develop thanks to the cooking of food.
* ‘Evolving Bigger Brains through Cooking‘, interview with Wrangham in Scientific American.
* ‘Early Chefs Left Indelible Mark on Human Evolution‘, article in New Scientist (paying).
* ‘Did Cooked Tubers Spur the Evolution of Big Brains?‘, article in Science magazine.