Oscar Kiss Maerth is the author of The Beginning Was the End (1973), a pseudo-scientific book that claimed modern man devolved from a species of brain-eating apes. According to Maerth, this diet increased the apes' brain size, sex drive, aggression, psychic ability and eventually caused insanity. Maerth offered no evidence for his theories, claiming only divine inspiration. Maerth's book was an influence on the new wave band Devo, who referred to him in early interviews as "Author Kiss-My-Ass". 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Phrenology is seen today as a classic example of pseudoscience. ... APE may refer to: AVS Plugin Effects for the Advanced Visualization Studio computer software. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in American, Australian and British popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, growing out of the New York City punk rock scene, itself centered around... Promotional photo distributed during Are We Not Men? era. ...

Although roundly discounted by the scientific community, recent research into Prions has cast some validity on Maerth's cannibal Hypothesis This article is about the infectious particles known as prions. ...