The energy balance shows that anyone Who has a lot of Hunger, you should eat a Bison or a horse than other people. For this important scientific knowledge, a Briton receives the Nobel prize for nutrition.
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There are questions in life that sound completely silly, but also serious scientists. For example, this: Is cannibalism a good Alternative to the consumption of deer, cattle and other animals? Say: is it Worth it from a purely nutritional technical point of view?
And if we’re at it: What are the body parts of the people particularly a lot of calories? These are the questions the archaeologist James Cole of the UK’s University of Brighton is investigated in his study.
The result: people are not particularly abundant source of Meat. This is because a person in the middle weighs compared to 65.9 kg, 24,9 kg of muscle meat. The nutritional value of the meat is a 1300 calorie per kilogram is also relatively low. “A single horse together provides much more calories than five or six people,” explains James Cole, the DW very seriously. “Besides, people are fighting back and are pretty dangerous prey animals.”
James Cole explores the life style of extinct human species – and therefore on the cannibalism.
This clearly speaks against the acts of cannibalism and could be a reason for this is that the consumption of human conspecifics has not set in Evolution. For experienced hunters, mammoths simply rewarding goals were in previous times. The relatively most calories is not providing the human adipose tissue – what but tastes certainly as good. Who must choose a part of the body, should choose the hips that make up Cole’s calculations, after about a tenth of the total nutritional value of a human being.
Hannibal Lecter and co.
As James Cole at the weekend, his results in the case of the Ig-Nobel prize lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit) in the US, Cambridge in front of a wide audience imagines that he reaps laughter. On WITH the this year’s Ig Nobel prize winners have come together: they all have a fun-to receive the Nobel prize for their quirky insights,”you first laugh and then think.” On the last Thursday (13.09.2018) were awarded to ten Teams with the satire prize.
A picture of the most famous cannibals of the movie history − Hannibal Lecter from the Hollywood strip, “the Silence of the lambs” − may not be missing at Cole’s lecture, of course. Similarly, the Definition of cannibalism as “eating tissue from individuals of their own species.” In the animal Kingdom that is not quite common – not only in people. However, it also happens with us again and again, as Cole highlights: it Is made of pure Überlebensnot, from a warlike intention, or Crazy as Hannibal Lecter.
The researcher assured by the way, “that at the time of his study, no people came to harm.” From the audience the question of whether he had tips for the modern cannibals today. The need to deny the Briton, however.
Quite serious
So funny as for the audience the results of his study for James Cole are not, by the way. The archeologist has a whole serious research: He is investigating the life style of Neanderthals and other extinct human species. And ate well and even each other – the fossil bone finds with the corresponding bite marks to show.
The Briton wants to show with his study, is that Neanderthals were not just eating machines, anything you rushed to me, nothing on members of their own species. Just about the meat, it didn’t go well anyway. Your Motivation, other people incorporate, was probably much deeper than that. Spirituality may have played a role. Maybe you wanted to let fellow members of their species via the detour of the cannibalism in itself?
“The Neanderthals were of their culture is very multi-layered, just like the modern man,” says Cole in a DW Interview. “Why should you not have had a complex attitude to cannibalism, so how are we today?”
The question of how human flesh tastes, actually: “It has been compared to the Texture of human meat with pig meat,” says Cole. “But, well, I and my colleagues ask ourselves if it was similar to that in the past wild game meat. We were finally much more active than it is today.” Another reason to abandon nowadays to cannibalism – at least, if you belong to the foodies.
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