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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Thog eats something red from that plant. Thog gets sick. Everyone knows not to eat that thing any more.
In addition to trial and error, there is the fact that our sense evolved to find food pleasing (smells and tastes good), because people who liked the flavor of poisonous things didn’t live long enough to procreate.
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