How do we, and other animals know what is food vs. not food?

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I’m imagining that no one showed the first humans (or other animals) what was edible and what wasn’t. So how did we discover that the things that we consider food are indeed food and not end up munching on random things and wondering why it wasn’t satisfying? Was it trial and error or do we have something built in us that helps us recognize things as food?

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There were no “first humans”. Humanity is part of a continuum of animals going back hundreds of millions of years.

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