The psychoactive effects of psychedelics on humans are likely a result of coevolutionary chemical arms races between plants, fungi, and insects, which selected for secondary metabolites that affect nervous systems via shared intercellular signaling pathways (Kennedy, 2014).

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  Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution

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• secondary metabolite concept