The pub as a kind of third spacea really comes off well in this book, right? And there's disagreeable study of the correlation between the frequency that people go to local pubs and other kind of health markers. That basically, like youou the people who regularly attend their local pub have much more vibrant communities. So it suggests that there's this healthy style of drinking t so they're drinking beers and wines, or drinking them in in a group setting where there's food and it's relaxed, it's open.
Do we have alcohol to thank for civilization? The answer, according to Edward Slingerland’s new book, “Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization,” is a resounding yes. Edward, who’s a professor at the University of British Columbia and self-proclaimed “philosophical hedonist,” says that far from being an evolutionary fluke, our taste for alcohol is an evolutionary advantage — one that we’ve relied on for millennia to help us lead more social, creative, and pleasurable lives.