"Reason"  wrote in message
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> If hominids were scavengers on the East African plains 2-4 M years
> ago, as we are led to believe, they likely would have developed a
> fondness for the smell of carrion, or at least an ability to tolerate it.
> Such is quite the opposite in modern humans. One would think that
> such a trait would still be evident in modern populations to some
> degree, after such a relatively short period of elapsed time,
> in evolutionary terms.

What?  Ya don't like carrion?  Actually, I'd guess you're wrong
here.  Have you ever been close to a lion (etc.) kill?  Fresher
carrion doesn't carry much of a scent, which rises with the state
of putrefication.  The more putrefied, the "worse" the scent, and
the more hazardous to our heath.  So I'd guess this aversion would
keep us away from only rotten meat.   My $.02.    Regards, Brett.
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