Man came into being through cannibalism—intelligence can be eaten. - Oscar Kiss Maerth

About Oscar Kiss Maerth

Oscar Kiss Maerth (8 October 1914 – 26 August 1990) was a Hungarian-born entrepreneur, philosopher and writer. He studied the living habits of people living close to nature in Southeast Asia. In doing so, he pursued questions about the causes of emergence and development of human beings, their intelligence and behavior. Maerth rose to prominence in 1971 as the author of The Beginning was the End, a book he wrote in 1967 in seclusion at the Tsin San Buddhist monastery in Guangdong Province, China. In this book, he advocated the thesis that humans descended from apes, which systematically consumed the brains of their fellow species for many thousands of years. As a result, their brain volume gradually increased. Ultimately, humans came into being through cannibalism. The thesis is widely considered pseudo-scientific.