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SYSK Choice: Improving Your Digital Body Language & How Food Affected Human Evolution

Something You Should Know

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The Evolution of Spices and Herbs

Spices contain biologically active compounds that plants have evolved to defend themselves against animals in particular insects and also diseases. So the irony of all the things we like to add to our food to make it taste good is that plants would largely evolve those things to stop animals eating them. Is dessert pretty much of a Western thing or does everybody have dessert at least now and again? Good question. I mean, it might be possible to answer that in terms of particular examples.

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