MFHEI Multifactor Health and Education Initiative Detailed Critical Review of: The Hunting Apes Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior, by Professor Craig Stanford, U South. Calif. and, Catching Fire How Cooking Made us Human by Professor Richard Wrangham, Harvard U First e-editions 2010, this 1st Edition 2011 now with responses from right of reply offers to Prof. Stanford and Prof. Wrangham as at July 2011. David J Vance, Multifactor Health and Education Initiative: BSc (med physiol, biochem, chem) (Hons: nutrition), James Cook U BA (Psychology), James Cook University Master of Medical Science (Epidemiology), University of Queensland Master of Public Health (Nutrition), University of Queensland Master of Medical Statistics, University of Newcastle, PGrad Diploma of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, James Cook U Grad Dipl of Health Economics & Policy, Monash University Naturopathic Certificate, North Coll Nat (KS Jaffery, ‗Nature Cure‘) Dipl Clin Nutrition, Internat Acad Nutr (R Buist, ‗Orthomolecular Nutr‘) Level 2 Sports Coach, (ACHPER) TAFE Self-published by: David Joseph Vance, Multifactor Health and Education Initiative (MFHEI) 1 http://sites.google.com/site/multifactorhealth MFHEI Multifactor Health and Education Initiative Self-publisher: David Joseph Vance, Multifactor Health and Education Initiative (MFHEI) ISBN 978-0-9871469-3-9 Copyright ⓒ 2011 by David Joseph Vance: No part of this work may be reproduced for financial profit. Otherwise, it is freely available for use, as a humanitarian initiative of the author and the Multifactor Health and Education Initiative. Do not reproduce things in isolation from the appropriate context. Acknowledge the source and authorship of what parts you use. 2 http://sites.google.com/site/multifactorhealth MFHEI Multifactor Health and Education Initiative Dedication: To those sufferers, of any species, unlucky enough to bear the burden of more suffering than the average, for example cage- farmed animals, among the worst so affected, and testimony to our collective mental deficiencies that the practice is allowed to continue. 3 http://sites.google.com/site/multifactorhealth MFHEI Multifactor Health and Education Initiative Acknowledgements: To my mother for her excellent early education of me. To my father for some genes, and cross-cultural experiences, and for his share of my food and lodging in early life. To Steven L Hardie, BPsych, my thanks for gifts from his personal library, and for condescending to again eat durian with me notwithstanding his years of regression to a scavenger diet, pending possible rehabilitation on further thought, I hope. To the University of Queensland Herston Medical Library Staff, for their competence. To the better of the scientists whose work I have examined in my work here, for their shoulders to stand on. To Kenneth S Jaffery, ‗nature curist‘ (his more appalling misconceptions notwithstanding, he seems to have been correct about some things), for his shoulders to stand on. To professor(!!...) _oger _ughes and those gormless minions of his that colluded to bring about my exclusion from the master of nutrition and dietetics course at _riffith U, not relishing the prospect of having to compete with me, nor of having me go on to point out the many defects doubtless present or to be present in any work of your own, for making me look so good in comparison – none of you will ever produce a work of science to match this; your paltry intellects will be honed in the fields of networking to secure each other‘s job and paycheck, clabbering together like rancid scum. To the chaotic and causally predetermined universe for my greater share than average of good luck, the disparity being unfair nevertheless; a disparity that I will try to reduce nonetheless the predetermination, because that will make me feel like my life has ‗meaning‘, because if I do not try, then certainly my life will have little if any ‗meaning‘, and accordingly I will ultimately feel less satisfied than if I do try. 4 http://sites.google.com/site/multifactorhealth MFHEI Multifactor Health and Education Initiative Contents: Notes p 6 Abstract for critical review of The Hunting Apes p 9 Summary Review of The Hunting Apes p 11-35: Summary review of The Hunting Apes Chapter 1 The Indelible Stamp p 11 Summary review of THA Chapter 2 Man the Hunter and Other Stories p 14 Summary review of The Hunting Apes Chapter 3 Ape Nature p 20 Summary review of THA Chapter 4 The View from the Pliocene p 22 Summary review of The Hunting Apes Chapter 5 The Hunting People p26 Summary review of The Hunting Apes Chapter 6 The Ghost in the Gorilla p29 Summary review of The Hunting Apes Chapter 7 Meat‘s Patriarchy p33 Detailed Critical Review of The Hunting Apes p 37-106: Detailed review of The Hunting Apes Chapter 1 The Indelible Stamp p 37 Detailed review of THA Chapter 2 Man the Hunter and Other Stories p 41 Detailed review of The Hunting Apes Chapter 3 Ape Nature p 55 Detailed review of THA Chapter 4 The View from the Pliocene p 61 Detailed review of The Hunting Apes Chapter 5 The Hunting People p 71 Detailed review of The Hunting Apes Chapter 6 The Ghost in the Gorilla p 79 Detailed review of The Hunting Apes Chapter 7 Meat‘s Patriarchy p 95 References for review of The Hunting Apes p 107 Right of reply offer to Prof. Stanford, and his reply p 108 Abstract for critical review of Catching Fire p 113 Detailed review of Catching Fire Introduction: The Cooking Hypothesis p 119 Detailed review of Catching Fire Chapter 1 Quest for Raw-Foodists p 127 Detailed review of Catching Fire Chapter 2 The Cook‘s Body p 147 Detailed rev. of Catching Fire Chapter 3 The Energy Theory of Cooking p 155 Detailed review of Catching Fire Chapter 4 When Cooking Began p 163 Detailed review of Catching Fire Chapter 5 Brain Foods p 185 Detailed review of Catching Fire Chapter 6 How Cooking Frees Men p 201 Detailed review of Catching Fire Chapter 7 The Married Cook p 209 Detailed review of Catching Fire Chapter 8 The Cook‘s Journey p 225 Detailed review of Catching Fire Epilogue: The Well-Informed Cook p 245 References for review of Catching Fire p 249; Appendix 1 Previous Dialogue with Prof. Wrangham on my review of his chapter The Cooking Enigma in Ungar (2007) and cursory review of the first four chapters of Catching Fire (Vance 2011) p 257 Right of reply offer to Prof. Wrangham, and undertaking to publish any replies not forthcoming in time for inclusion here on the Multifactor Health site p297 5 http://sites.google.com/site/multifactorhealth MFHEI Multifactor Health and Education Initiative Notes: This review is written for a lay audience of average mental ability, and so some things are spelled out or repeated in different places to a greater extent than would be the case if it were written for a purely academic audience. The review goes through Stanford‘s and Wrangham‘s books mostly in their own order, from front to back of them. I do not adhere to a standard paragraph structure, most often starting a section of Stanford‘s or Wrangham‘s words in one line, and my comment on them immediately below on a new line – this is intended to provide a balance between providing my comment immediately next to the relevant portion of their words, and providing the opportunity to read their words in a connected manner by more readily bypassing my comments. Also, as just here, I will often put a new point on a new line, when there is no great essential continuity of sequence between the subject matter of sentences in a block of text – it is foremost a work of science, and science is not always best written in the way usually prescribed for prose and narrative things. In the writing format of this review, I write in the first person (i.e. ―It seems to me that …‖ rather than ―It seems that …‖, as I think that this is the most accurate representation of the reality – the writer (some person, myself) is expressing their thoughts and opinions on some matter, rather than the writing being generated by an infallible scientific analyzing machine, much as though that is what I aspire to be as close as possible to… In the Detailed Critical Reviews, Stanford‘s and Wrangham‘s words from the texts of their books, the most crucial of them in my opinion, are provided verbatim (reducing the chances of my misconstruing or misrepresenting them), identified by (CS, THA) and (RW, CF), and then enclosed in quotation marks, starting with their page number: (CS, THA) ―(p150-2) abc … xyz‖. My comments are enclosed in square brackets and preceded by my initials: (DV) [abc … xyz], or, [(DV) abc … xyz] when my comments are more inside text of Stanford‘s or Wrangham‘s that I have reproduced. 6 http://sites.google.com/site/multifactorhealth MFHEI Multifactor Health and Education Initiative Usually 3 dots … means that a portion of a Stanford or Wrangham sentence has not been reproduced by me, other than where it indicates a ‗pregnant pause‘ (implying that at least some of the (, and substantial,) significance of my words is understood or understandable by the reader without my needing to write it all out) and 6 dots … … means that at least 1 sentence of Stanford‘s or Wrangham‘s has not been reproduced by me. Subject matters in Stanford‘s and Wrangham‘s texts, reproduced by me, that are more separated in subject matter have a one line space in between them, whereas those that are more connected will have no line spaces. I do not provide the full reproduction of Stanford‘s or Wrangham‘s references, just the Author‘s name and the date – partly to save myself scarce time and effort, and partly because I greatly dislike the citing and referencing of works that have not been properly read (much less understood…) by the writer – when I have read only a scientific journal abstract, not the whole work, I indicate that by placing ―abstract only read‖ next to the reference.