Well we were already adapted for it or at least our ancient ancient fish ancestors were we lost the ability that’s my core point, salt isn’t exactly rare and other minerals can be used to reduce osmotic pressure, but besides that 40% of all people live near salt water and ~30% of all land animals live near salt water so I wouldn’t think that would be enough to lose such a valuable resource as water, I am obviously wrong since we can’t drink salt water but it still feels like a miss step.
i guess in the case of humans we would have evolved for a long time to mainly eat fruit that has a high water content with low salt content possibly even being most of needed water intake. after starting to eat meat perhaps there hasnt been enough evolutionary pressure to be able to regain saltwater consumption ability
Well we were already adapted for it or at least our ancient ancient fish ancestors were we lost the ability that’s my core point, salt isn’t exactly rare and other minerals can be used to reduce osmotic pressure, but besides that 40% of all people live near salt water and ~30% of all land animals live near salt water so I wouldn’t think that would be enough to lose such a valuable resource as water, I am obviously wrong since we can’t drink salt water but it still feels like a miss step.
i guess in the case of humans we would have evolved for a long time to mainly eat fruit that has a high water content with low salt content possibly even being most of needed water intake. after starting to eat meat perhaps there hasnt been enough evolutionary pressure to be able to regain saltwater consumption ability