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Davide Risso

Researcher

Aug 28, 2026

40:39
Yeah
40:39
... uh, is, it's a survival mechanism.
40:43
Of course, each species got adapted to a certain environment, and taste, among other senses, helped to, uh, increase their fitness, so their survival, uh, chances.
40:56
Um, and within each of the five tastes that we have, each one has a particular role in, in evolution.
41:03
For example, um, sweetness.
41:07
Uh, sweetness is one of the tastes that they signa- it signals the presence of energy.
41:13
Usually, it's represented by sugars, so it's freely available energy.
42:55
If this is sort of going against the natural order in a sense, how do we decide to like these things as well?

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