Government control Quote by Jared Diamond

“A fatal disease vanishing for another reason was New Guinea’s laughing sickness, transmitted by cannibalism and caused by a slow-acting virus from which no…

— Jared Diamond

“Those parasites pass to a person from an eaten animal, but the virus causing laughing sickness (kuru) in the New Guinea highlands used to…

— Jared Diamond

“In many cases, this doomed the refugees to starvation. Farmers, therefore, tended to stay put and fight to the bitter end. 12. Tribal warfare…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In New Guinea, they had a disease called kuru, transmitted by eating the brains of their enemies.” “That’s not true.” “Gajdusek won a Nobel…

— Michael Crichton

“Children in the New Guinea highlands have the swollen bellies characteristic of a high-bulk but protein-deficient diet. New Guineans old and young routinely eat…

— Jared Diamond

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

— William P. Young

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed…

— Jared Diamond

Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of…

— Herman Melville

“When James Larrick and his colleagues studied the still relatively isolated Waorani Indians of Ecuador, they found no evidence of hypertension, heart disease, or…

— Christopher Ryan

In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the…

— John Dos Passos

When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives on nearby Malakula were…

— James A. Michener

“That European diseases ran rampant in the New World is an old story, but recent discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, and archaeology have painted a…

— Douglas Preston