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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 Strange Case Of The Rickety Cossack 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 0zoologist 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 F

Who reads Cannibalism : a Perfectly Natural History?

Author

Bill Schutt; Patricia Wynne

Publisher

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781616204624

Category

science

Subjects

Folklore, Anthropology, Fiction

Rating

3.89 / 5 (1,089 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14