Wrangham and His Colleagues Suggested That the Invention of Cooking

Multiple Choice

Wrangham and his colleagues suggested that the invention of cooking at the time of the first Homo erectus was a major change affecting subsequent human evolution. What apparent facts seem to falsify this hypothesis?

A) The best evidence for the first use of fire by humans dates to at least 1 million years before Homo erectus.
B) The clearest evidence for the first use of fire by humans dates to at least 1 million years after Homo erectus.
C) Homo erectus was significantly larger than earlier australopithecines, suggesting that hunting was more important than cooking.
D) There are no changes in the diet-related physiology (teeth, gut, etc.) of Homo erectus, suggesting that something like cooking was added to the hominin toolkit.