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Cannibalism: It's 'Perfectly Natural,' A New Scientific History Argues

An illustration from 1875 depicts the survivors of the frigate <em>Cospatrick</em>, which caught fire off South Africa's Cape of Good Hope in November 1874. Of more than 470 people on board, just three ultimately survived, and they <a href=&quot;http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10382697&quot;>were reduced to cannibalism</a>. (Getty Images)
An illustration from 1875 depicts the survivors of the frigate Cospatrick, which caught fire off South Africa's Cape of Good Hope in November 1874. Of more than 470 people on board, just three ultimately survived, and they were reduced to cannibalism. (Getty Images)

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