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From the Vault: Mushroom Foraging, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Evolution of Mushroom Foraging

Bread may have been invented before grain s was an agricultural product, like people may have been making. It makes me wonder if they were getting these grains from some kind of like location where there were a lot of them growing together and could be exploited over and over again. To sum all this up, i hypothesize that the origin population for modern humans made this shift to dense and predictable resources, and thus was subject to high levels of territoriality and inter group conflict. The downstream effect was that all modern humans inherited these hyper pro social proclivities that are unique to our species.

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