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Psychology Today takes an evolutionary approach. They argue that drinkable alcohol is a relatively novel invention of 10,000 years ago. Our ancestors had previo
by hugh3 16y ago
Psychology Today takes an evolutionary approach. They argue that drinkable alcohol is a relatively novel invention of 10,000 years ago. Our ancestors had previously gotten their alcohol kick through eating rotten fruits, so more intelligent humans may be more likely to choose modern alcoholic beverages.
Is it my imagination, or does that leap of logic make no sense whatsoever?
Perhaps I'd need to be drunk to understand it.
- Alex3917 16y agoI think they are saying that until relatively recently only people lots of openness-with-experience and intellectual curiosity would spend the time learning about and tracking down random fruits in order to get fucked up. And so between roughly a million years ago and ten thousand years ago, it was mostly intelligent people who were co-evolving with alcohol. So that's why intelligent people today get more pleasure from drinking. I personally would propose that intelligent people are more likely to have less empathy and social intelligence as the evolutionary tradeoff for being smart, so they benefit more from using alcohol socially.
- dolphenstein 16y agoSo the smelly bum on the street corner who mutters to himself is at the peak of the evolutionary hierarchy? The assertions made seem too simplistic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...