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Pretty sure we got that evolutionary response thanks to mimics. 

Imagine sitting at a fire with your tribe. One of your tribe's hunters finally returns from the deep dark woods and sits by the fire. You look into his face. There's something wrong. 

It's a bit too perfect, kinda waxy, shiny, like it's made out of skin-tone wet clay. Eyes a little bigger than they were, no scar under left eye.

Oh-oh!

It's the fucking mimic again! 

You take a mallet and you smash the mimic. Pseudopods emerge out of the head wound, try to grab you. The lads already set a bunch of sticks on fire, so you all manage to fend the thing off and set it ablaze. 

Next door, another tribe, without the instinctive response, gets wiped out by a bunch of mimics during the same night. 

Your tribe survives. 

I'm pretty sure this is how it went.
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