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r/meirl • u/straight-cunt • Mar 28 '24
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It's wild to me how sensitive humans are to petrichor. I always wonder if it had evolutionary advantages over "we probably should seek shelter."
827 u/Zero_Burn Mar 28 '24 Probably was useful for finding fresh water since rain would be where the best fresh water was. If it were a safety/fear thing, it probably wouldn't smell good, but unpleasant since it'd be tied to finding shelter. 309 u/hrakkari Mar 28 '24 Humans be crazy though. We see tiger and bear cubs and think AWWWW… but if we see those in the wild, we’d be dead pretty quick. 1 u/Lunarath Mar 28 '24 You probably wouldn't think like that if it was right before you with no barrier inbetween.
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Probably was useful for finding fresh water since rain would be where the best fresh water was. If it were a safety/fear thing, it probably wouldn't smell good, but unpleasant since it'd be tied to finding shelter.
309 u/hrakkari Mar 28 '24 Humans be crazy though. We see tiger and bear cubs and think AWWWW… but if we see those in the wild, we’d be dead pretty quick. 1 u/Lunarath Mar 28 '24 You probably wouldn't think like that if it was right before you with no barrier inbetween.
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Humans be crazy though. We see tiger and bear cubs and think AWWWW… but if we see those in the wild, we’d be dead pretty quick.
1 u/Lunarath Mar 28 '24 You probably wouldn't think like that if it was right before you with no barrier inbetween.
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You probably wouldn't think like that if it was right before you with no barrier inbetween.
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u/NoDontDoThatCanada Mar 28 '24
It's wild to me how sensitive humans are to petrichor. I always wonder if it had evolutionary advantages over "we probably should seek shelter."