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I've always been curious about the evolutionary implications of this. Something that big in diet for that long will have evolutionary impact. And since it's m
by Pxtl 3y ago
I've always been curious about the evolutionary implications of this. Something that big in diet for that long will have evolutionary impact.
And since it's mind and behaviour-altering, I often wonder if human minds had to evolve to compensate for constant drunkenness. Are we all more obsessive and intelligent to make up for constant drunkenness making us sloppy and dumb?
- atomicnumber3 3y agoHumans have been anatomically modern for about 200k years, and sufficiently little about us has changed that an autopsy wouldn't find any differences unless it looked for things like the teeth and jaw showing a pre-grain/agriculture diet and things like that. (But our teeth and jaws would look like that too if we could kick this whole grain habit). Evolution is slow (unless it's a huge bottleneck event).
- Pxtl 3y agoEvolution is not necessarily slow. The Russian silver fox domestication experiment produced massive personality changes and even physiological changes in only 20 generations. As for humans, current scientific consensus is that 5000 years ago virtually no human adult could digest milk, and now lactose tolerance is prevalent in like 95% of European-descended people. And none of the above would appear in a visual inspection of a skeleton. I figure the kind of neurological and digestive adaptations to being perma-buzzed might be similar.