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How Human Evolution Shaped the Way Alcohol Affects Us
2025-10-22
Abstract excerpt
The biomedical community has largely overlooked the role alcohol has played in human evolution during the approximately 300,000 years since modern humans emerged from other primate species. Initially, alcohol consumption, like that of our primate relatives, was limited to low levels obtained from scavenged, fermenting foods. These small amounts produced psychostimulatory effects that likely drove one of early huma...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 474763d0-3b9d-5946-9aa4-ab326f0af443
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202510.1745.v1