• @mudmaniac
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    28 months ago

    The wild banana has almost nothing to eat, being filled with large seeds and we can still find wild apples, by nature very tart but still edible. Every single cereal we plant and harvest today was originally nothing more than a wild grass.

    I cannot help thinking about the first proto-human that started munching on the tips of wild grass.

    • “Hey Unk, check out Krug over there, chewin on the grass. That shit’s messed up.”
    • “I dunno Greg. Looks pretty tasty to me.”
    • qyron
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      -18 months ago

      Our ancestors were primarily leaf eaters, so moving to grass wouldn’t be that unusual. But let’s picture the first proto-human that decided to go for the carcass of another animal, either killed by a predator or by fire or lightning. That would have been an event.

      • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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        28 months ago

        I’m pretty sure most primates are omnivores so they’d have been hunting as well just more in an opportunistic way

        • qyron
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          -18 months ago

          If we are to go back far enough, we are bound to find an ancestor mostly herbivore. On that level, going for the scenario I mentioned would have been some event.