Cannibalism

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Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity. --Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate response to starvation or other life-threatening circumstances, and few spent time studying it. A taboo subject in our culture, the behavior was portrayed mostly through horror movies or tabloids sensationalizing the crimes of real-life flesh-eaters. But the true nature of cannibalism--the role it plays in evolution as well as human history--is even more intriguing (and more normal) than the misconceptions we've come to accept as fact. In Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, zoologist Bill Schutt sets the record straight, debunking common myths and investigating our new understanding of cannibalism's role in biology, anthropology, and history in the most fascinating account yet written on this complex topic. Schutt takes readers from Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains, where he wades through ponds full of tadpoles devouring their siblings, to the Sierra Nevadas, where he joins researchers who are shedding new light on what happened to the Donner Party--the most infamous episode of cannibalism in American history. He even meets with an expert on the preparation and consumption of human placenta (and, yes, it goes well with Chianti). Bringing together the latest cutting-edge science, Schutt answers questions such as why some amphibians consume their mother's skin; why certain insects bite the heads off their partners after sex; why, up until the end of the twentieth century, Europeans regularly ate human body parts as medical curatives; and how cannibalism might be linked to the extinction of the Neanderthals. He takes us into the future as well, investigating whether, as climate change causes famine, disease, and overcrowding, we may see more outbreaks of cannibalism in many more species--including our own. Cannibalism places a perfectly natural occurrence into a vital new context and invites us to explore why it both enthralls and repels us.

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Cannibalism

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a masterful and compulsively readable book that challenges our preconceived notions about a behavior often sensationalized in our culture and until just recently misunderstood in the scientific world ian tattersall curator emeritus american museum of natural history and author of the strang 1 - 2 weken .. MEER INFO

Eat Thy Neighbour

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A lively and easily digestible account of cannibalism and cannibals from the earliest incidents through to the modern day cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest seated taboos even in an age when almost nothing is sacred religious moral and social prohibitions surround the to Uiterlijk 14 november in huis .. MEER INFO

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism

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Examines the role of the cannibal in the arguments of philosophers from the classical period to modern disputes about such issues as vegetarianism and the right to private property this book tells the story of the birth of modernity and of the philosophies of culture that arose in the wake of the Uiterlijk 21 november in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 januari 2018

Aantal pagina's: 352

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Bill Schutt

Hoofduitgeverij: Algonquin Books

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Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 139 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm

Verpakking lengte: 208 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 601 g

EAN: 9781616207434

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