On chimps self-treating parasitic infections with dangerously toxic plants- "Huffman thinks that people may have acquired medicinal knowledge through the observation of animals."https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/magazine/the-self-medicating-animal.html …
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
Humans are a type of chimpanzee, so this is sort of a silly claim. Surely a more defensible one is that humans have been practicing medicine all along?
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Replying to @St_Rev
not that trivial since he also covers non-primates such as sheep self-medicating, but yes definitely the least supported/thought-out claim in the article
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
Eh, I read the claim wrong (as 'humans may have acquired the idea of medicine'), my bad.
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