• mudmaniac@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year 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.