Palaeolithic cannibalism: Contextualising attitudes to death and society

[@UltrEgoVegeta]

Soylent green. It's humans!

[@jessebianchi2631]

back in the 60's a reformed cannibal spoke at my church. he went on his first headhunting expedition when he was 12. someone asked him what his favorite part was. he held his arm up and touched his tricep. someone else asked what human tasted like. his reply? pork. btw, ritual of the communion has it's roots in ritual cannibalism. as an atheist i find that hilarious.

[@ronpflugrath2712]

You could be a ground round steak lol

[@robbobennetts]

If humans prefer eating animal food with higher calories, namely, food supplied by animals larger than ourselves, what happens in the case of a) “desert islands’ where there are no large animals, or b) the Australian continent where every land animal larger than humans died out after humans arrived? Wouldn’t that change the equation?

[@paulrussell4338]

Off topic perhaps but given the audience I wondered if anybody has seen any research into the evolution of ethnic cleansing. My interest is mainly in later Sapien ethnic cleansing and the evolution of the ability of societies to excuse it. To make it acceptable in their own minds. Its seems that Sapiens see it when unrelated people do it but not when they or related people or people they identify with do it. It seems that as the intellect becomes more complex there is an advantage in evolving a sort of congenital moral blindness. Obviously, we will never know the excuses of the past, but can we see any evidence of how it occurred. For example, there seems to be a system in play. The newcomers arrive. The older population and the newcomers coexist for a time. Then some new comers get scalped or whatever and then the older population is destroyed. So: 1.Arrival 2.Coexistence 3.Reaction 4.Destruction I wondered if there is any research into this at earlier stages in human evolution. Can we see these 4 stages in the fossil or genetic record.

[@briemills9209]

You can never be a good speaker, no matter how brilliant you are, when you insert an 'ah' or an 'uh' in every sentence. I can't finish ths video.

[@ronpflugrath2712]

You are not suposed to eat it

[@robbobennetts]

Agreed, He probly should hand back his Noble prize