Ability To Consume Alcohol May Have Shaped Human Evolution

sciencehabit writes Craving a stiff drink after the holiday weekend? Your desire to consume alcohol, as well as your body's ability to break down the ethanol that makes you tipsy, dates back about 10 million years, researchers have discovered. The new finding not only helps shed light on the behavior of our primate ancestors, but also might explain why alcoholism—or even the craving for a single drink—exists in the first place.

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Of course it did

[GrumpySteen]

Anyone who has woken up next to someone they hooked up with while drunk can tell you that alcohol completely undermines selective breeding.