Reply to post: Re: Only the pleasure of eating?

Hominid ancestors beat humans to the drinks cabinet, say boffins

Psyx

Re: Only the pleasure of eating?

"This doesn't sound convincing to me. Tolerance to lactose certainly opened a whole new range of foods for humans yet we don't get drunk on milk as some kind of an evolutionary reward."

That's because lactose isn't by nature toxic and mind-affecting. Ethanol is.

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