Schutt avoids sensationalism of what could have been a true crime sorry of book. I much preferred the scientific take. The approach and topics were familiar territory, as life science major. The first part was pretty standard, invertebrates, myths and facts of praying mantis and black widow cannibalism, dinos, Neanderthals. Of course the Andes flight and the Donner Party were covered. The recent placenta eating fad fit with my love of wellness debunking. Ritual cannibalism and taboos temporarily veered from the evolutionary or necessity argument. The section discussing kuru in New Guinea was a good detective story with amusing shade for anthropologists - some deserved (they tended to assume cannibalism occurred without proof and probably overestimated), some...just eh yikes (sleeping with research subjects).