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When it was all trial and error
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This is not quite true because "dose makes the poison". Foragers would have protocols to evaluate just by dosing. You can safely lick most berries and mushrooms and use that as a strong identifier.
The funniest one is the mushroom that makes you see tiny people for like a week. It’s not like psilocybin that causes different visuals depending on the person. As far as we can tell, the only visual hallucinations that these mushrooms produce are just… Tiny people. Like little Smurf-sized people on every surface, clinging to your clothes, climbing up walls, etc…
Do not eat the reality-veil lifting shrooms.
Lilliputian affairs aren't meant for humankind and the separation is intentional. Hmph.
And this is why you don't eat a fairy circle.
They mainly just observed what other animals ate...
What other animals eat ≠ safe for human. So still trail and error.
Sure, but it helps a lot. A lot of the chemicals in question attack aspects of physiology that many animals have in common, especially if you're observing other mammals. You'd not be guaranteed safety, but you'd avoid most of the worst ones I'd reckon.
Do other animals eat psychedelics?
Yes. Brian from Family Guy had mushrooms one episode. Bojack Horseman did drugs to write his autobiography. Pretty sure Snoopy smokes weed, and Scooby Due is definitely second-hand high from Shaggy all the time
Supposedly reindeer will eat psychedelic mushrooms. Shamans would collect their urine and drink it to trip, i mean vision quest. The theory is the animal filters out the toxins but the psilocybin is just expelled.
Hunger will make you eat all kinds of things.
Like ass
Especially if you’ve a hunger for ass.
Imagine the first person to make bread. Do you know how much shit has to go right in the perfect amounts and time for it to work?
Think about stages to the process. Crush grain and mix with water to be easier to eat. Put paste on rock near fire to cook (flat bread). Leave paste sit for a while and wild yeast do their thing.
Can you imagine this as a punishment or execution method? Like, you committed some terrible crime or were on the wrong end of a feud, and now you are forced to eat a mushroom, wait two or three days, then get force fed (or even unknowingly fed!) the next one. Then you have some shalman/stone-age-food-scientist recording what happens.
They used children and dogs for sure
When I was a kid we found some berries in a field, but we didn't know if they were safe to eat. So we asked our parents, they didn't know either, they told us to ask our great-grandmother since she was super old she might know what the berries were.
So we took the berries to grandma and she looked at them for a second and then immediately ate the all of them.
"So... they're safe to eat?"
"Come back tomorrow, if I'm still alive they are safe to eat"
She reasoned that she was old and if the berries killed her it wouldn't be a big deal. But if one of us kids died it would be a huge tragedy.
So from that experience, I'm guessing it wasn't children that tested if things were safe to eat it was probably the elderly.
I get the feeling that 'getting old enough to be less functionally important to the group' wasn't a common phenomenon in the time period depicted in the meme, but I also think your logic tracks.
Children at a certain age keep putting everything in their mouth and trying to eat it. It's wonder any used to survive.
They were probably testing the mushrooms since before dogs existed
......before dogs existed? Do you think there was some date where we invented dogs? Wolfs have always been around, and all dogs are is domesticated wolfs.
What? You're basically answering your own question: we 'invented dogs' when we domesticated wolves. Before that date there were no dogs in existence.
It was not one exact date ofcourse, it is a gradual proces. Still (a quick look at Wikipedia tells me) dogs have only been around for tens of thousands of years (17.500 - 40.000 years is the range I can find). Which is still not that long. People had definitely tried out mushrooms before that.
*wolves
You never question animals knowing what they can eat, but I guess they don’t have as diverse a diet as people.
I'm pretty sure that last one explains why they kept coming back to them.
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