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It's really more like tasting good = evolutionarily useful.
by TulliusCicero 4y ago
It's really more like tasting good = evolutionarily useful.
- carlmr 4y agoWhich is true for sugar. It's good if you get a few grams of sugar while running around the forest all day. It's not good to get half a pound of sugar from big gulp softdrinks while you're sitting in traffic.
- beebmam 4y agoNot necessarily, even in the evolutionary biology model. Something can taste good to humans entirely by accident, and be evolutionarily neutral (or even a small amount negative). Just like the reason men have nipples.
- strken 4y agoThis is probably more true of sweet-tasting poisons like lead diacetate than sugars.