microrobert
12-03-2014, 01:03 PM
Human ancestors developed a taste for alcohol 10 million years ago
Happy hour started way earlier than we thought.
Roughly 10 million years ago -- long before humans began to store food harvested by agriculture, and long, long before they intentionally fermented food and made a delightfully relaxing ritual of consuming the result -- a new study finds that the guts of our primate ancestors evolved the ability to metabolize alcohol.
http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-sn-human-ancestors-alcohol-20141201-story.html
Happy hour started way earlier than we thought.
Roughly 10 million years ago -- long before humans began to store food harvested by agriculture, and long, long before they intentionally fermented food and made a delightfully relaxing ritual of consuming the result -- a new study finds that the guts of our primate ancestors evolved the ability to metabolize alcohol.
http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-sn-human-ancestors-alcohol-20141201-story.html