Was everyone just sick all the time? How did they keep everyone from dying?
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Nature helps some. Many things that are dangerous smell and/or taste bad. Shit smells bad. Rotting food smells bad and tastes bad (generally).
They also died young.
Nature helps some. Many things that are dangerous smell and/or taste bad. Shit smells bad. Rotting food smells bad and tastes bad (generally).
They also died young.
Observation. So-called “primitive” people were no different to us. They may not have had the scientific method to help them understand the real reasons for things, and their explanations may have been somewhat fanciful at times – but that didn’t stop bright people spotting corelations.
Observation. So-called “primitive” people were no different to us. They may not have had the scientific method to help them understand the real reasons for things, and their explanations may have been somewhat fanciful at times – but that didn’t stop bright people spotting corelations.
Darwinism. some people were like dogs and liked to eat their own shit. they would die young and not pass down such stupid genes. other people liked to not poop where they eat, those would live more and have more time to pass down those smart genes.
Darwinism. some people were like dogs and liked to eat their own shit. they would die young and not pass down such stupid genes. other people liked to not poop where they eat, those would live more and have more time to pass down those smart genes.
Humans have an inbuilt sense of disgust, and by age 3-4 also have an intrinsic sense of contamination.
Give a 18 month old a cookie with a fake cockroach on it and they will wail, take away the cockroach and they’ll eat the cookie. By 3-4 years old the child will reject the ‘contaminated’ cookie even though there’s no visible signs of cockroach on it anymore.
Poop is extreme pungent and disgusting so easily drives us to minimize contamination.
It’s not just us, most animals strictly avoid pooping where they eat/drink.
Humans have an inbuilt sense of disgust, and by age 3-4 also have an intrinsic sense of contamination.
Give a 18 month old a cookie with a fake cockroach on it and they will wail, take away the cockroach and they’ll eat the cookie. By 3-4 years old the child will reject the ‘contaminated’ cookie even though there’s no visible signs of cockroach on it anymore.
Poop is extreme pungent and disgusting so easily drives us to minimize contamination.
It’s not just us, most animals strictly avoid pooping where they eat/drink.
Modern people like to think ancient/primitive people were dumb but really, they weren’t. They just lacked as much technology as we do. (I mean, if you go back far enough, sure, but by the time we were tribal and capable of using tools, we haven’t gotten *that* much smarter.)
Those primitive people would have been able to see the correlations. “Oh, when I eat rotting meat I get sick. I shouldn’t do that.” “Oh, when I drink dirty water, I get sick, I shouldn’t do that.”
They would have been able to make the correlations (eventually) between certain things, one of those would have been sanitation. They may not have known *why* things happened, but they would know that they *did* happen and could figure out the circumstances surrounding that.
Modern people like to think ancient/primitive people were dumb but really, they weren’t. They just lacked as much technology as we do. (I mean, if you go back far enough, sure, but by the time we were tribal and capable of using tools, we haven’t gotten *that* much smarter.)
Those primitive people would have been able to see the correlations. “Oh, when I eat rotting meat I get sick. I shouldn’t do that.” “Oh, when I drink dirty water, I get sick, I shouldn’t do that.”
They would have been able to make the correlations (eventually) between certain things, one of those would have been sanitation. They may not have known *why* things happened, but they would know that they *did* happen and could figure out the circumstances surrounding that.
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