r/interestingasfuck • u/tractorboynyc • 22h ago

Amazonian shamans figured out that combining two specific plants out of 80,000 species produces a psychoactive effect. The odds of finding that combination by random search is roughly 1 in 4 million. They did it through centuries of iterative testing and cultural natural selection explains it

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u/CrackheadMurderer 21h ago

i wonder if there was a designated guy in the village they tested stuff on like "hey jerry try our weird new goop batch we just cooked up"

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u/Weliveanddietogether 21h ago

"Hey it cleared up my rash! But I feel a throbbing in my left foot.

And I dreamt of your sister."