Cannibalism
May 28 2009, Asylum Staff

Filed under: Food, Video, Weird, Nature Earlier this week, we reported on French archaeologist Fernando Rozzi’s published study in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences that suggested Homo sapiens regularly attacked, killed and even ate their ancient Ne

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