Do you believe that people will eat people?

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I've been reading a very interesting book recently-The Attack of Homo sapiens, and an interesting example was mentioned at the beginning of the book.

Back in 1957, if you were unfortunate enough to come to new guinea while drifting at sea, you would not be glad that you found land, but would secretly scold: What bad luck. And then swam desperately to other places. The reason why I do this is not that I am full and want to exercise more. It is really because if I choose to log in, I will face a very cruel reality-becoming food in the belly of others. Yes, you are not mistaken. It is someone else, not something else.

In many movies, we will see that some tribes have the custom of cannibalism. At that time, we thought it was just a fiction made by the director to increase the appreciation of the film. Who ever thought that cannibalism really existed in this world? And this tradition actually lasted until 1957. Compared with war, cannibalism is undoubtedly more creepy.

In new guinea, this kind of creepy thing was sparse and common. For some tribes, cannibalism was similar to our daily eating of pork. But the original intention of the creator to create human beings is obviously not to let us eat each other. In order to make people remember this clearly, the creator needs to alert such people in some ways, so a cannibal tribe in New Guinea, Fulei, is haunted!

local women will die strangely: before they die, they will show strange giggles on their faces, tremble all over, talk nonsense and walk crooked. Isn't it like a folklore, a ghost? Strangely, only women in the tribe will die like this, which makes people wonder whether the creator sent a "goat" or how to pick women out.

However, in 1957, human beings have emerged from the shadow of war and entered the era of civilization. Therefore, the so-called ghost theory may be popular among the people, but it is not trustworthy in some people's eyes, so some people try to reveal the true face of ghosts and gods for people through scientific means.

Scholars from all over the world found through investigation that the brains of these dead women were all decayed into spongy hollow structures by something, which caused people to do something different from ordinary people. Further research found that this is an infectious disease, but experts have been unable to find the pathogenic factor. Is it really some natural force beyond human imagination that caused this symptom?

Actually, it's not. It's just that this kind of thing is beyond the cognitive boundary of scientists at that time, so we can't find the real pathogenic factor, but time will make people grow up. Now, we have found the real pathogenic factor-prion. This virus is very tiny, only one thousandth of the size of a normal virus, and some are even smaller. It only exists in the brain and spinal cord, and will not cause any inflammation or produce any antibodies. To be exact, it may not be called a virus, because its structure is too simple, and it may be more appropriate to call it an infectious protein particle. It will cause protein's wrong folding, and make the human frontal brain tissue become a hollow structure like a sponge.

The reason why this pathogenic factor will spread in Fulei tribe is because of the tradition of the tribe: cannibalism. In their view, the best way to commemorate the dead relatives is not burial or cremation, but eating them. You can imagine a scene, in the dead of night at midnight, a person gnawing at the flesh and blood of his loved ones, while whining: xxx, what a miserable death you have! The picture is too real!

so why does it only happen to women? It turns out that local men don't eat people. (If you come to a strange place, it may be more reliable to find a woman with a good face and a man with an abominable face, at least you won't be eaten. In their view, this will weaken their combat effectiveness, so it is mainly women and children who will eat people, and this prion just exists in the brain and spinal cord of the deceased. When women put the excavated brain marrow in their mouths, it also means that death is waving to them. From this point of view, it seems not an exaggeration to say that this is the punishment of the creator for mankind.

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surprise moment

However, in Fulei tribe, not all cannibals will die because of this. The reason for this is that there is a gene called PRNP on their chromosome 2, which is about prion protein. The sad fact is that experts have found that this prion-resistant gene is ubiquitous in all ethnic groups. Perhaps, we are just survivors of a cannibal tribe.