(Cartmill 1997: 511). To Dart, the australopithecines
were
confirmed
killers: carnivorous creatures that seized living quarries by violence,
battered them to death, tore apart their broken bodies, dismembered
them limb from limb, slaking their ravenous thirst with the hot blood
of victims and greedily devouring living writhing flesh. (1953:
209)
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