Ep 85 Alcohol: Beer for Thought
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The Importance of Dietary Ethenal to Primates
The importance of dietary ethenal to humans and other primates is also may be illustrated by just how sensitive we are to the smell of it. A smell that signalled to our evolutionary ancestors, hey, here's some ripe fruit to eat. Here's some good food. It triggers these rewards tems in our brains that evolve to encourage adaptive behavior. And this high jacking of our reward systems might have worked out great when the sources of alcohol were limited to the, you know, piles of fermenting fruit on the forest floor. But then once humans began to actually intentionally produce hol some more of the downsides began to appear.
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