Noel Armstrong is the host of Know Thyself, a podcast that tries to figure out who we are by learning where we've been and what we've done. He talks about anthropic aliphages, which he coined for human cannibals. Noel: Why would you choose such an extreme marginal, aberrant topic in order to help us understand who we are? To some extent, I think it's founded and well-grounded.
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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