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A fellow named Gajdusek was awarded the Nobel Prize (Physiology of Medicine), for his research on "the trembling disease" he studied (I think natives of New Guinea) where there was an alarming rate of female deaths. The tribe wasted nothing, and when a tribal member died, that individual was eaten by the other members, the females did all the work to include cooking the corpses, and therefore were rewarded with the tastiest parts ie, the brains.

Later, Gajdusek was convicted of child abuse, the conviction took nothing away from his groundbreaking work.