What Are The Disadvantages Of Cannibalism? There’s a good biological reason why cannibalism is taboo in virtually every culture: Eating other humans can make you sick. Specifically, eating the brain of another human being can cause kuru — a brain disease that’s similar to mad cow disease. Kuru occurs because our brains contain prions that
Do Humans Taste Good To Lions? Do Humans taste good to lions? Two maneaters devoured dozens in the late nineteenth century but one ate the lion’s share. A notorious pair of man-eating lions that teamed up to terrorize Kenyan labour camps more than 100 years ago did not have the same taste for human flesh,
Did Early Humans Cannibalize Each Other? Did early humans cannibalize each other? There is evidence, both archaeological and genetic, that cannibalism has been practiced for hundreds of thousands of years by early Homo Sapiens and archaic hominins. Human bones that have been “de-fleshed” by other humans go back 600,000 years. The oldest Homo sapiens bones