“The Cooking Enigma,” by Richard Wrangham, seeks to find the role of cooking in human evolution. The author begins by introducing the idea that cooking is insignificant and has no influence on evolution. The alternative view is that cooking is important and has led to several biologically distinctive characteristics of humans, such as small intestines, small teeth, and slow life histories. Both points of view agree that cooking improves food nutritionally and makes it easier to eat and digest. Digestion uses a lot of energy, especially when digesting hard foods. Cooking can speed up and facilitate digestion, although further experimentation is needed. This can be vital, because small changes in diet have far-reaching effects. To illustrate, the author offers an example comparing chimpanzees and gorillas. Both are frugivores and can supplement their diet with fibrous foods. However, gorillas can live exclusively on fibrous foods, while chimpanzees cannot due to digestive and dental adaptations. This difference has affected the ability of chimpanzees and gorillas to live in different environments. It is possible that the need to develop quickly d...