The History of Cannibalism

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In this episode, we learn that our closest primate relatives are cannibals. We're going to learn that our genetic precursors were cannibALS. People who shared our anatomy and our physiology in the time before history were cannibal. And when you look at the cumulative weight of that evidence, you have to say, okay, that's part of who we are,. That's part of our DNA.

We look into the evidence from primatology and archaeology to find the roots of human cannibalism in nature or nurture. Along the way we find shadows our own dual nature between sexy hippy bonobos and hawkish war chimps; learn how homo sapiens slept with their food, visit a stone age cave of nightmares in Britain; and join the debate over what seems to have been a short-lived fad for eating humans among the Ancestral Pueblo.

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