Cannibalism : a perfectly natural history / by Bill Schutt.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: xviii, 332 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781616204624
- 1616204621
- 394/.909Â 23
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Book | Chanute Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Chanute Public Library | Adult Books | 394 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34316002497386 |
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Animal the cannibal -- Go on, eat the kids -- Sexual cannibalism or size matters -- Quit crowding me -- Bear down -- Dinosaur cannibals? -- File under: weird -- Neanderthals and the guys in the other valley -- Columbus, caribs and cannibalism -- Bones of contention -- Cannibalism and the Bible -- The worst party ever -- Eating people is bad -- Eating people is good -- Chia skulls and mummy powder -- Placenta helper -- Cannibalism in the Pacific Islands -- Mad cows and Englishmen -- Acceptable risk.
"Bill Schutt, a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us on a tour of the field, exploring new avenues of research and investigating questions like why so many fish eat their offspring and some amphibians consume their mother's skin; why sexual cannibalism is an evolutionary advantage for certain spiders; why, until the end of the eighteenth century, British royalty regularly ate human body parts; how cannibalism may be linked to the extinction of Neanderthals; why microbes on sacramental bread may have led to Catholics' to persecute European Jews in the Middle Ages."--
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