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Family dinners: when relatives are on the menu

Cannibalising your relatives doesn’t seem to be a one off, but a behaviour that has been deliberately and repeatedly selected for. So how can eating your family be a good thing for your genes? Presenter, Dr Sally Le Page, explores the gruesome evolution of family dinners, from offspring eating their mothers, siblings eating each other and parents eating their own children. Kids meal, anyone?