Alcoholism's evolutionary and cultural origins.

doi:10.2174/1874473711003040197

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Alcoholism's evolutionary and cultural origins.

Current drug abuse reviews - 1 Dec 2010

Abel Ernest L

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Alcoholism's heritability has been convincingly documented but the question of why a disorder that is so damaging to the individual and to society should continue to persist is still baffling. A widely held assumption is that whatever genotype is involved, its components must originally have conferred survival value else it would never have evolved. The corollary to that assumption is that when conditions...

Topics

Agriculture
Alcoholism
Animals
Biological Evolution
Cultural Evolution
Ethanol
Feeding Behavior
Genotype
History, Ancient
Humans

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PMID: 21208170
DOI: 10.2174/1874473711003040197

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