04255cam a2200577 4500 523144343 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616206550 1616206551 B01B3VMCQY Amazon 9134b1d5-930a-45b7-ad85-e43c40e0770a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2595939 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Schutt, Bill. Cannibalism [Libby] : A Perfectly Natural History. Algonquin Books, 2017. anthropology. animal kingdom. Popular science. Evolution. cannibals. Zoology. jeffrey dahmer. cannibal. New Guinea. Mad Cow Disease. hannibal lecter. Neanderthals. museum of natural history. donner party. history of cannibalism. eat me. eat their young. taboo subjects. Chiricahua Mountains. dark banquet. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6367kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 5743kB. History. Science. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>"Surprising. Impressive. <i>Cannibalism</i> restores my faith in humanity."</b> —<b>Sy Montgomery, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /> For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate response to starvation or other life-threatening circumstances, and few spent time studying it. A taboo subject in our culture, the behavior was portrayed mostly through horror movies or tabloids sensationalizing the crimes of real-life flesh-eaters. But the true nature of cannibalism—the role it plays in evolution as well as human history—is even more intriguing (and more normal) than the misconceptions we've come to accept as fact.<br /> In <i>Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History</i>,zoologist Bill Schutt sets the record straight, debunking common myths and investigating our new understanding of cannibalism's role in biology, anthropology, and history in the most fascinating account yet written on this complex topic. Schutt takes readers from Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains, where he wades through ponds full of tadpoles devouring their siblings, to the Sierra Nevadas, where he joins researchers who are shedding new light on what happened to the Donner Party—the most infamous episode of cannibalism in American history. He even meets with an expert on the preparation and consumption of human placenta (and, yes, it goes well with Chianti).<br /> Bringing together the latest cutting-edge science, Schutt answers questions such as why some amphibians consume their mother's skin; why certain insects bite the heads off their partners after sex; why, up until the end of the twentieth century, Europeans regularly ate human body parts as medical curatives; and how cannibalism might be linked to the extinction of the Neanderthals. He takes us into the future as well, investigating whether, as climate change causes famine, disease, and overcrowding, we may see more outbreaks of cannibalism in many more species—including our own.<br /> <i>Cannibalism</i> places a perfectly natural occurrence into a vital new context and invites us to explore why it both enthralls and repels us.<br /></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9134b1d5-930a-45b7-ad85-e43c40e0770a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9134b1d5-930a-45b7-ad85-e43c40e0770a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9134b1d5-930a-45b7-ad85-e43c40e0770a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)