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Comment by CGMthrowaway

5 days ago

Whoever smelled a ginkgo fruit and said "let's eat this" !

Our sense of smell also evolved in the past couple thousand years. And the further back you go, the hungrier our ancestor will be.

I need to get food at the market, not wait for it to fall into a trap or fight it to death.

It's not the sarcotesta, the butyric-acid filled dogshit smelling thing, it's the "seed" (it's not really a seed, morphologically as I understand it...), the sclerotesta that's edible.