Could just be the air we breathe. From Rachel Newer, a Valentine’s Day riff, at Smithsonian:
Fall in Love With Cannibalism This Valentine’s Day
We “civilized” folk tend to write off cannibalism as a freak phenomenon reserved for psychopaths, starvation and weird animals (I’m looking at you, praying mantis). In fact, eating others of your kind is a well-established biological strategy employed throughout the animal kingdom. Moreover, our own species’ history is rich with examples of this “eccentric” behavior, from medicinal consumption of human body parts in Europe to more epicurean people-eating in China. More.
Nuwer recounts her experience of eating chef-prepared human placenta.
See also: Darwin’s wastebasket: The evolutionary purpose of suicidal behaviour
and
Darwin’s wastebasket: “Evolutionary” explanation for female genital mutilation
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