Word: cannibalisme
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Every generation in medieval Europe suffered famine. The poor ate cats, dogs and the droppings of birds; some starving mothers ate their children. In the 20th century, periods of extreme hunger drove Soviet citizens to cannibalism, and as late as 1943, floods destroyed so much of Bengal's crops...
> In The Beginning Was the End (Praeger; $7.95), the enthusiasm of Author Oscar Kiss Maerth spills over in red ink. The book, subtitled Man came into being through cannibalism-intelligence can be eaten, bears all the markings of pristine eccentricity: a big theme, a closed system of self-perpetuating logic...
Like a placard bearer of apocalypse, he foretells man's doom from his bloody beginnings. The thesis: man evolved from perverted apes who ate the brains of other apes. Brains being an aphrodisiac, they increased the sex drive, which in turn increased the need for more brain food. This...
Even after their decision, many of the survivors could not bring themselves to eat human flesh. Finally, a medical student, Roberto Canessa, cut some matchstick-sized slivers from one of the bodies, placed them on the battered aluminum roof of the plane to dry in the sun and then, to...
Somare's caution was understandable Papua New Guinea has a fair claim to being the world's most backward nation. Its 2,600,000 people, spread over an area somewhat larger than California, are divided into 702 tribes and speak perhaps as many languages. In the past year...