Abstract
Early attitudes to cannibalism were that it was an aberrant and abhorrent form of human behaviour which was occasionally seen in animals under extreme stress, such as being artificially crowded in a laboratory, but not in nature. Many biologists today still maintain that the killing — let alone eating — of members of one’s own species is a rare event, that “intra-specific conflict” is largely ritualized and rarely causes serious injury or death.
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White, T.C.R. (1993). Cannibalism. In: The Inadequate Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78299-2_13
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