Consider cannibalism, which has been practiced by groups in every part of the world.
Anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday found evidence for cannibalism in 34% of cultures in one cross-historical sample.
Indeed, cannibalism continues to be read on many levels as a metaphor for Brazilian art.
The bank has avoided Deutsche-style cannibalism: fewer than 10% of Comdirect's new customers are banking clients of Commerzbank.
The Big Four rejected "The Walking Dead" partly because a gory cannibalism drama seemed too extreme for a primetime audience.
The site is one of more than a dozen in the American south-west where signs of cannibalism have been found.
There was cannibalism in 1563 and 151 famines were recorded in England before 1620, the year the Mayflower sailed to America.
Hutchinson starts with the title case involving cannibalism on the high seas and proceeds to well-known classics like Brown vs.
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Cannibalism has fascinated visitors to Brazil ever since Hans Staden, an explorer, escaped a Tupinamba stew pot in the 16th century.
Police in Brazil say three people arrested on suspicion of murdering at least two women have confessed to acts of cannibalism.
News coverage of tribal disputes in the Highlands and crime in Port Moresby give prospective international travellers pause, as do outdated punchlines about cannibalism.
"For a long time, cannibalism has been known as a factor that contributes to evolutionary processes, " says lead researcher Dr Roshan Vijendravarma.
The controversy over cannibalism will keep experts ruminating for some time yet.
Listeners chose to believe his tales of cannibalism and ridiculous clothing because it was easier to believe what was titillating than what was true.
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Police Officer Gilberto Valle is convicted of conspiracy in a macabre case that opened a window on a shocking Internet world of cannibalism fetishists.
Ironically, cannibalism in many forms is a recurrent theme in Cloud Atlas, but this material feels all-too familiar, and not in a cheeky, knowing way.
Given the fuss over cannibalism, Dr Marlar and his team want to extend their experiments to convince sceptical colleagues and resistant native-Indian groups of their findings.
"Presumably they're poorly equipped to hunt other animals, including their own species, so it's an evolutionary question as to why cannibalism still exists among non-carnivorous animals, " he said.
For more than 90 days until they were picked up, they were blown about the Pacific, enduring the torments of thirst, hunger and hallucination, drinking their own urine and finally succumbing to cannibalism.
This is an admirable scruple, but a puzzling one, because it is largely absent from other Grimm tales, many of which feature mutilation, dismemberment, and cannibalism, not to speak of ordinary homicide, often inflicted on children by their parents or guardians.
Reviewing aloud the text during cross-examination of prosecution witness Corey Walsh, defense attorney Robert Baum sought to make the FBI agent counter his prior testimony that Valle's e-mails and online chats with others who said they were interested in cannibalism were real.
In studies he conducted in Papua New Guinea, Ekman found that members of the Fore tribe (who were completely disconnected from Western culture and were also known for their unusual cannibalism rituals) attributed smiles to descriptions of situations in the same way you and I would.
In his essay on the play, Professor Clarke Hulse counts "14 killings, nine of them on stage, six severed members, one rape (or two or three, depending on how you count), one live burial, one case of insanity and one of cannibalism - an average of 5.2 atrocities per act, or one for every 97 lines".
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