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> If eating human flesh was an actual tendency in a society ... Just as a fun heads up on human history, the markers are there that humans have eaten humans gl
by defrost 2y ago
> If eating human flesh was an actual tendency in a society ...
Just as a fun heads up on human history, the markers are there that humans have eaten humans globally for several thousand years ...
Funerary cannibalism appears to have been common as a mark of respect and humans developed defences against brain prion diseases .. this came to light when looking into why the Fore people developed Kuru .. they developed a sporadic variation that jumped the guard rails.
In relatively recent recent European history there have been spates of "Corpse Medicine" (worth looking up) in which parts of Egyption mummies were eaten, parts of executed criminals, etc.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)