How could the stranded soccer teammates survive on cannibalism alone?
What we know so far about theThe team’s plane seems to crash in the spring, and they make it through the summer fairly easily by hunting animals. But once it starts snowing, the Yellowjackets—now a team of a different sort that includes their assistant coach Ben and their head coach’s two sons, Travis and Javi—run out of food.
Sheer desperation is what first pushes the group to cross the line into eating one of their own, which aligns with what we know about the long history of human cannibalism. “We’ve seen cut marks and tooth marks on bones going back about a million years,” says James Cole, a principal lecturer in archaeology at the University of Brighton in England.
Jackie’s ostracism from the group before her death may have made the act of eating her easier to sit with emotionally, says Cole . “Because she’s no longer seen as an integral member of the group, their empathy is degraded,” he says. Probably a month later , the team is again desperately hungry. Because we know the team ultimately spends 19 months in the wilderness, that leaves 10 more months between the meal they made of Javi in the season finale and their far-off rescue.So how much sustenance could a human body provide? Cole’s, which explores cannibalism in Paleolithic times and how many calories the practice would likely render, offers some clues.
The standard Paleolithic man from Cole’s research weighed just 110 pounds, while the average weight of a 17-year-old girl during the
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