Some prehistoric people under-reacted to news of plagues. Other prehistoric people 'over-reacted' to news of plagues. The former went extinct. The latter became our ancestors.pic.twitter.com/NNbvK7UA6K
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Birds have no concept of aerodynamics. What do they base their 'flying abilities' on?
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That is like asking what humans base their walking abilities on. Early ability for “disease” prevention included blood letting, astrology or posies to treat “misasmas”. Doctors once never even washed hands between surgeries. No matter how they reacted it was uniformed
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Let me do ya one better Geof, long before Gregor Mendel made some noise farmers were breeding disease resistant crops and domesticating animals so in their bones they "knew" a lot. Interestingly they still made some bone headed mistakes.pic.twitter.com/1IWs7dWzjz
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Mistakes are far, far more common in human history than the opposite
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Some cultures had greater taboos related to human waste and washing, especially high-density Asian cultures. But prior to germ theory, I can't think of an example of a culture that responded forcefully and efficiently to a plague.
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Guessing more like random cultural habits that made your group less susceptible, making those habits more widespread.
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The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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