2017-05-18

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Could we survive if we only ate humans!?

10 Weirdest Cannibalistic Animals - https://youtu.be/4L6YtH1K9sc

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References:

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/gory-details/some-animals-eat-their-moms-and-other-cannibalism-facts Some animals eat their moms, and other cannibalism facts

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/3/140369 Eaten alive: cannibalism is enhanced by parasites

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1446361?origin=crossref&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Possible Enhancement of Growth in Tadpoles Through Cannibalism

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/human-flesh-looks-beef-taste-more-elusive-180949562/ Human Flesh Looks Like Beef, But the Taste Is More Elusive

https://www.wired.com/2006/11/robot_identifie/

http://www.medicaldaily.com/cannibalism-high-protein-diet-youve-never-considered-yields-fewer-calories-eating-other-animals Cannibalism, The High-Protein Diet You've Never Considered; Yields Fewer Calories Than Eating Other Animals

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v522/n7557/abs/nature14510.hA naturally occurring variant of the human prion protein completely prevents prion disease

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/europes-hypocritical-history-of-cannibalism-42642371/ Europe’s Hypocritical History of Cannibalism

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/13/eat-me-natural-unnatural-history-cannibalism-anthropology-bill-schutt-review Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism – review

http://www.livescience.com/51191-cannibalism-prions-brain-disease.html Eating Brains: Cannibal Tribe Evolved Resistance to Fatal Disease

https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2013/sep/26/mad-cows-cannibalism-kuru Mad cows, cannibalism and the shaking death

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(06)68930-7/abstract Kuru in the 21st century—an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416516301702 Funerary practices or food delicatessen? Human remains with anthropic marks from the Western Mediterranean Mesolithic