💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🧠🥩 A new #math model explains why #cannibalism keeps appearing and then disappearing across human #history. The #model shows that while eating human #meat provides calories, the epidemiological costs of disease transmission quickly outweigh any benefits and lead to #community collapse. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/mathematics-reveals-why-human-cannibalism-keeps-reappearing #humans #anthropology #epidemiology #evolution #prions #pathogens #culture #science #biology