I often think of this when people say something along the line of "the first person to ever eat that must have been brave", or "how did they even know ..." . If

I often think of this when people say something along the line of "the first person to ever eat that must have been brave", or "how did they even know ..." . If you spend a lot of time outdoors in a preindustrial world, wouldn't a lot of this stuff would just be second nature? Life in contemporary cities and that of most of human history is so different people can't empathise very well.