Is Drinking Alcohol an Evolutionary Mistake? feat. Edward Slingerland

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc · Feb 22, 2022 · 1h 2m

The short answer is no. According to Edward Slingerland our taste for alcohol is a practice found in nearly every culture, meaning that its consumption must offer benefits which outweigh its obvious costs.Edward Slingerland is a professor of philosophy at The University of British Columbia up in Vancouver, and is also the author of multiple books. His most recent being “Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization.”So today we are looking at alcohol from a historical perspective: the origins of alcohol production, why humans allocate so many resources to it,and how it…