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watching a show I recorded off PBS, it makes me wonder: "Who was the first human who thought, 'hey why don't I save these small things and put them into the dirt to gather more plants next year'" -- (edited)

Posted by crash davis (aka crash davis) Dec 5 '16, 22:32

making the connection of seed to grown plant was just as big a deal as learning how to make fire

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Please, aliens dude. -- nm - jnine Dec 6, 00:31
ancient man had a wide range of pharmacuticals, so observation and experimentation of that sort would include seeds, birds and bees -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 5, 23:05 7
- and that makes me wonder "Who was the first human to get high?" -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 23:14 6
  - also: bears eat magic mushrooms, like on purpose, so it's not a uniquely human thing. - mafic Dec 5, 23:59 1
    - rats and squirrels get crazy drunk eating rotting apples...omg its bizzare -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 6, 02:06
  - "hey, Thnog, you know that cave in the valley everyone says smells funny? If you go way inside and breathe deep, you will see some serious shit." - howie Dec 5, 23:49 1
    - "Whatever, dudes, you go hunt, I'm going to stay here and get baked." "Yeah, you guys go on. I'm with Gary, we should grow more of this stuff." -- nm - Max Dec 6, 03:26
  - We know this one. Tommy Chong. -- nm - Mop Dec 5, 23:37
  - the myth around the discovery of wine has its initial inventor murdered because everyone thought he was poisoning them. -- nm - mafic Dec 5, 23:34
I always imagine it was mostly accidental. like people kept some seeds to eat later, and then they sprouted, or they threw all the inedible seeds away - mafic Dec 5, 22:43 5
- This is in line with current anthropological theory. - Mop Dec 5, 22:56 3
  - But there is that one person who first made that connection. That is who I wonder about. -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 23:05 2
    - This will only serve to frustrate you further, but it's quite likely that it happened many times in many places over many hundreds/thousands of years - Mop Dec 5, 23:36 1
      - But it did happen first somewhere, I wonder about that person. -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 23:50
- fermentation - Beer, the world's happiest accident -- nm - crash davis Dec 5, 22:44

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watching a show I recorded off PBS, it makes me wonder: "Who was the first human who thought, 'hey why don't I save these small things and put them into the dirt to gather more plants next year'" -- (edited)

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