It's 800,000 BCE. Do you know where your children are? *burp*

[Malthus]

Indeed. I hesitate to question the pros, but...how can you really draw these kinds of conclusions without lots of strongly corroborating evidence?

It is also totally counterintuitive. One need look no further than modern hunter-gartherers to know that hunting isn't always a totally secure food supply.

The Algonquins, for example, had a cultural horror of cannibalism, exactly because there were so many occasions in which the food supply would fail and they would be tempted to it.

They lived in an environment already heavily effected by human beings however, one would think in the more pristine ecosystem there would be more resources available.

Why? Animal preditors die of starvation all the time "in the wild". Why should humans be any different?

There have always been fluctuations - caused by disease, fluctuations in the foods prey eat, climate conditions. Thing is, your average hunter-gatherer hasn't any means of long-term storage of surplus, other than drying or smoking meat, so even a couple of months of scarsity could wipe them out. 

[alfred russel]

Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, one of the co-directors of the Atapuerca project, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, said: "It is the first well-documented case of cannibalism in the history of humanity."

Not to pile on, but this is kind of silly.

[jimmy olsen]

Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, one of the co-directors of the Atapuerca project, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, said: "It is the first well-documented case of cannibalism in the history of humanity."

Not to pile on, but this is kind of silly.

Seems like more of a typo or translation error there. I'm sure they meant to say that it is the earliest well documented case, not the first well documented case.

[Josquius]

God should not have allowed this.

Indeed. I hope this makes the actual news, the fundie response would be funny.

[alfred russel]

God should not have allowed this.

Indeed. I hope this makes the actual news, the fundie response would be funny.

If they believe the world is only 6,000 years old, they won't take it seriously,just like every other bit of evolutionary science.

[Jaron]

Europeans..

Sigh, some things never change.

[Neil]

God should not have allowed this.

Anyone who is willing to accept that the world is more than 6,000 years old has already realized that there's no gods anyways, whether they have the moral courage to admit it or not.