Nature & Nurture #45: Dr. Edward Slingerland - The History of Alcohol
The Nature & Nurture Podcast
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Alcoholism and Its Functional Benefits
The idea is that if it was evolutionary adaptive to get rid of the taste for alcohol, we would have seen that propagated everywhere. But since it hasn't happened, there must be other benefits - and this book tries to explain what those might be. It's very hard to find research on functo, the function of alcohol in any kind of social way,' he says.
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