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Cannibalism Study Finds People Are Not That Nutritious

Source: National Geographic

While our ancient ancestors did practice cannibalism, eating other humans just couldn't compare with taking down a mammoth.

By Erika Engelhaupt

PUBLISHED April 6, 2017

Note to the prehistoric party planner: One dead mammoth can feed 25 hungry Neanderthals for a month, but cannibalizing a human would provide the crowd with only a third of a days calories.

Essentially, you're a walking lunch.

A new look at the nutritional value of human flesh shows that, compared with other Paleolithic prey animals, humans weren't especially packed with calories for their size.

When you compare us to other animals, were not very nutritional at all, says study author James Cole of the University of Brighton, who published his work Thursday in Scientific Reports.*
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Erika Engelhaupt is a science journalist and editor. She writes the blog Gory Details at National Geographic.

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* http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/srep44707

Read more: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/hu...y-science/

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