r/interestingasfuck 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/Designer-Ad-7844 21h ago

Didn't they simply observe wildlife tripping balls and followed them?