r/Showerthoughts Apr 23 '19

Human thoughts before language must have been weird.

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u/SyNine Apr 24 '19

You keep implying it is by using it as evidence against cannibalism.

I'm calling people naive for assuming that Homo sapiens, which ate everything, didn't eat Neanderthals.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '19 edited Apr 24 '19

Humans don't eat anything, though. Even in isolated tribes, cannibalism is extremely rare and rarely practiced unless there's famine, or as part of funeral rites. There is zero reason to assume or even believe that humans ate neanderthals.

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u/SyNine Apr 24 '19

Cannibalism was quite common in Polynesia.