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The Origins of Alcoholic Beverages

Early grains that were first farmed were not good for making tacos oror bread products, but they were very well suited to making alcoholic beverages. It's really a pretty dramatic re writing of where we come from, yes. And it was surprising to me that this wasn't more widely known. So i already had a sense that alcohol is playing this important role in helping us adapt to civilization,. But when i started reading the archaeological literature I was like, wall actually, luito quite literally gave rise to civilization, if this is true.

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