Assertion: cannibalism | /r/HasProperty | common
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: in the animal kingdom
type: LOCATION
value: throughout the animal kingdom
type: OTHER
value: among prehistoric human beings
type: OTHER
value: no longer
type: TEMPORAL
value: among people
type: OTHER
value: to the point
type: OTHER
value: in thousands of species
type: OTHER
value: in folk tales
type: LOCATION
value: in mythology
type: LOCATION
value: in chinese literature
type: LOCATION
value: in china
type: LOCATION
value: probably
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: For all the disgust and repulsion we feel when we imagine ourselves taking a big, juicy bite of human flesh, the fact is that cannibalism among animals is surprisingly common and, most of all, a perfectly natural part of the behavior of organisms—including humans.
text: Readers will be induced to accept that cannibalism is a common practice in China.
text: Cannibalism is also a very common motif in Chinese literature.
text: Cannibalism is a common theme in mythology and folk tales (see Lévi-Strauss, 1969) and, as a practice, it has been reported in Europe, Polynesia, Melanesia, North and South America, and Africa (see Tannahill, 1975; Sanday, 1986; Gordon-Grube, 1988).
text: Although I am not authority on ancient history, I feel certain that when a walled city was under siege (i.e. an enemy was attempting to starve it into submission while attempting to take it militarily), cannibalism was probably a common occurence once food supplies ran out.
text: Cannibalism is a common occurrence in thousands of species, even herbivorous and detritivorous ones, to the point where zoologists refer to it as "ubiquitous" in the natural world.
text: Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species.
text: If they think that cannibalism in China was common, well they think that cannibalism in China was common.
text: If they think that cannibalism in China was common, well they think that cannibalism in China was common.
text: Cannibalism as a theme in heavy metal/death metal music is very common.
text: Now, in the animal kingdom, cannibalism is fairly common and found in more than fifteen hundred species, but this activity is rare in humans, just maybe not as rare as you might expect.
text: Maybe this is why cannibalism is no longer common among people as it was in the past, because of the strong negative effects it can have when transmitting a disease.
text: In the past three decades, however, scientists have come to realize that cannibalism is surprisingly common, and that it occurs for a variety of different reasons: male spiders who become their consort's dinner gain a reproductive advantage, Schutt explained, while sand tiger sharks take advantage of their spare siblings in utero to hone their hunting skills before they're even born.
text: I mostly quote Croll's recipe in perverse delight at the prose, but Croll and Samuel Johnson show that cannibalism in Europe was not only common and seen as medicinal (this derived from the third-century philosopher Galen), but also elaborate.
text: Cannibalism was common among prehistoric human beings, and the practice continued into the 19th century in a few isolated South Pacific cultures, most notably in Fiji aka “Cannibal Island.
text: Cannibalism is the act of eating a member of the same species and, while disgusting to most of us, is an extremely common practice throughout the animal kingdom.