Live And Kicking Part 3
A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail
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The Five Tastes Are Basily Locked Own
The five tastes are basily locked own from an evolutionary point of iew. They're not changing at all, except bitterness, which is changing all the time because of this evolutionary armstrace. We have to evolve e a way to detect the poison so we don't die. Then another plant comes along that mimics the poison. It's not poisonous, but it stimulates the poison receptors. So we need to evolve new receptors that aren't stimulated by the fake poison. And n yeu poison and taste can be tricked as well. Your sense of bitas being a trickeda. The final two, salt and sour Those are different to the other ones. There's just a hole
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