Among chimpanzees who have 98.7% of the same DNA we do, it's a way of life. Homo antacessor is the precursor for both Neanderthals and humans. And in those conditions, infanticide might confer some survival advantage on them. Well with that, I'm going to leave our survey of cannibalism among the great apes.
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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