[Sigia-l] [OT] They Eat Their Own

[Listera]

There's been talk of cannibalism here of late. I came across this today and
I thought some of you may find this a worthwhile and amusing divertissement:


Birds do it. Robber flies that look like bees do it. Even chimpanzees do it.

And now researchers say that a tiny voice from near the bottom of life's
evolutionary ladder is chiming in on the chorus: Let's do it. Let's eat our
own. 

It is time to get over the old notion that only the advanced, highly
intelligent beings of this world practice cannibalism.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/24/science/24CANN.html>

"However, if cannibalism only offers species nothing more than
disadvantages, why do so many evolutionarily-successful species, including
our own , continue practising it? Could cannibalism offer some powerful
evolutionary advantage that has yet to be identified?"

<http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=03/06/25/06371048>

:-)

Ziya
Nullius in Verba