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by credit_guy 2524 days ago
It's possible that until very recently we didn't have that much salt in our food, and so we didn't have time to evolve a proper response to that. And by "very recently" I mean a mere 200-300 years ago. Consider that in many cultures spilling salt is considered a bad omen, that most likely means salt was scarce not long ago.