The authors of 'Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution' propose that humans likely exploited psilocybin and other psychedelics due to their chemical resemblance to endogenous signaling molecules like 5-HT, despite these compounds originally evolving as chemical defenses against insects.

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• Person: Not available Organization: Frontiers
  Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution

Sources

• Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution www.frontiersin.org Frontiers via serper

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• psilocybin concept
• 5-HT concept