• Angry_Autist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s discounting the cultural plant knowledge that those hunter gatherers had.

    100k years of ‘Don’t eat that, it kill Grog remember?’ can lead up to a pretty extensive safe list of wild plants as well as a bunch of useful healing herbs.

    We’ve long since forgotten most of it, having not needed it since agriculture.