If early humans found out that if they cooked meat it was better for them, why did it take thousands of years for us to find out about germs?

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If early humans found out that if they cooked meat it was better for them, why did it take thousands of years for us to find out about germs?

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I would consider some traditions like eating kosher to be akin to recognizing germs. They didn’t have the ability to make glass fine enough for microscopes to see the actual germs but they knew eating certain things were dangerous and they acted accordingly.

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