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That seems like a stretch to me. Sources of hazardous concentrations of ozone are generally technogenic in nature -- the concentrations produced by lightning in
by duskwuff 7y ago
That seems like a stretch to me. Sources of hazardous concentrations of ozone are generally technogenic in nature -- the concentrations produced by lightning in the troposphere are far too low to pose any real danger. As such, there's no reason that humans (or any organisms) would have evolved to specifically detect that.
- tomxor 7y agoProbably not directly, but the mechanisms we evolve are generalized to some degree, i.e they often end up being useful for things our ancestors never encountered. Perhaps the method by which we smell give us a similar sense for some similarly hazardous molecules. According to the wiki O3 smells much like Chlorine, they are both highly oxidizing which is why they can be hazardous.