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Originally Posted by woj
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'"I suspect ethanol was a second-choice item," Carrigan said. "If the ancestors of humans, chimps and gorillas had a choice between rotten and normal fruit, they would go for the normal fruit. Just because they were adapted to be able to ingest it doesn't mean ethanol was their first choice, nor that they were perfectly adapted to metabolize it. They might have benefited from small quantities, but not to excessive consumption."
so they just figured out a way to find out how far back the ability to digest it goes
that doesn't mean they weren't ingesting or smoking anything else..?