Traditions of medicinal use of psychedelic mushrooms among hominins may have originated during periods of extreme food scarcity when ill or hungry individuals experimented with new foods and subsequently associated their recovery with the new dietary item, as hypothesized for non-human primate self-medicative behaviors by Huffman (1997).

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  Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution

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• psilocybin mushrooms concept
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