(已售，如有需求請重新下訂)Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

為什麼一些兩棲動物消耗母親的皮膚?
為什麼某些昆蟲在性交後咬他們的伙伴呢？
為什麼直到二十世紀末，歐洲人經常吃人體作為醫療用品?
以及自相殘殺可能與尼安德特人的滅絕有關。

科學家已經將同類相食作為一種奇怪的現象，它在大自然中的存在被解釋為對飢餓或其他危及生命的環境的絕望反應。

而在我們文化中的禁忌主題，這種行為主要是通過恐怖電影或小報諷刺現實生活中肉食者的罪行來描繪的。但是，同類相食的真正本質 - 它在進化和人類歷史中的作用 - 比我們接受的誤解更為有趣（而且更正常）。

在同類相食：完美的自然史中，動物學家比爾·舒特（Bill Schutt）創造了直接的記錄，揭露了這個共同的神話，並調查了我們對食人族在生物學，人類學和歷史上的作用最新理解。

Schutt也帶領我們進入未來，調查隨著氣候變化導致飢荒，疾病和過度擁擠，我們可能會在更多的物種 - 包括我們自己的這些物種中看到更多的同類相食爆發。

食人族主義將一個完全自然的事件置於重要的新境界，並邀請我們探索為什麼它們吸引和驅逐我們。

 In Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History,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).

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.

Cannibalism places a perfectly natural occurrence into a vital new context and invites us to explore why it both enthralls and repels us.

  Bill Schutt(Autor)

Publisher: Algonquin Books 

ISBN:  978-1616204624 

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