The Ethics of Cannibalism

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After studying primate, proto-human and prehistoric cannibalism, I think it's pretty clear that we need to keep laws against it on the books. Cannibalism is considered immoral to the point of depravity by almost every society on earth today. And there are very good reasons for that, which we'll get into when we talk about the ethics a bit more.

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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