Listener Billy hit us with an excellent question: would redheads' bright coloration indicate potentially poisonous meat? We take you on a journey through pigmentation in nature outside of humans, poison, and people-eating to answer this one. How did animals get more brilliant colorations? How did humans get the color palette we have now? That's where we'll take you in part one. Billy's question was so wild that we needed two parts to answer. Hope you like this very serious and somewhat rambling look at your question!

-Forgive the delay in publish, a combination of technical issues related to moving recording platforms (there's still some distortion in Remy's audio, but we're working on it), Remy moving, and health stuff really shook up our schedule. We're back to it now. Thank you for bearing with us.

CW: Cannibalism, Snakes, Spiders, Various Venomous Animals and What Happens When They Use Their Venom

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