It turns out that one chelovechinki will not be full. The body of Homo sapiens on average contains only about 130 calories, but it’s not enough to use it as main power source.
To these conclusions came a James Cole, a British anthropologist from the University of Brighton. In his article, published in the journal Scientific Reports, he tried to find out how the phenomenon of cannibalism, common in the Paleolithic era, it is appropriate as a survival strategy of a tribe. To do this, Cole estimated the calorie content of certain parts of the human body.
As noted anthropologist, materials for this reason not so much. However, carefully examining the data the mid-twentieth century, he cites here are the numbers:
50 calories — the fat of 10.3 kcal — leather; 5.4 kcal — head and torso; 7,5 kcal — shoulders; 1.7 kcal — forearm and hand; and 13.4 kcal — thigh; 4,5 kcal — calves and feet; 1.3 kcal — digestive tract; 2,7 kcal — the brain and spinal cord; and 25.3 kcal skeleton, including the bone marrow. That makes a total of from 125 to 144 cal depending on size and physique.
For comparison the author cites the caloric content of the woolly mammoth (3.6 thousand kilocalories), the animal could feed a group of hunters, consisting of twenty-five men, within 60 days. And the steppe bison (612 calories) — within ten. While the human body, even being completely eaten by such a group will be able to hold them in fullness only half a day.
It is clear that studies of the caloric value of the person as some dishes were not carried out so much, and the results are somewhat different from the real, however, and this is enough to assert that cannibalism is a bad strategy for the power of the tribe.
On the other hand, now we know the secret of smartness Hannibal Lecter. It’s time to release under his name books diets for weight loss.
However, these people didn’t care about calories, for example.
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