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Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization: Edward Slingerland

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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Adaptive and Offensive Alcohol

The answer's got to be something adaptive, something inthe currency that evolution works in. So so we have to think about what the potential adaptive and offensive alcohol are. To think about that, we have to thinking about our particular ecological niche. Human beings are primates, but we're really weird primateswer we're very our life styles and everything about us is very different from our closest relatives. I want to focus on two things: Our dependence on technology, tool sets, and therefore innovation.

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