How Did Humans Invent Alcohol?

History of Alcoholic Beverages

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Sources:

History of Alcohol:
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https://www.alcoholproblemsandsolutio...
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https://www.pnas.org/content/104/4/11...

Animals who drink alcohol:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/natashaumer/...
bats: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

Alcohol and Transatlantic Slave Trade:
https://journals.openedition.org/etud...

Alcohol in pre-columbian America:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/661862?s...
Andrews, Tamra (2000). Nectar & Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World Mythology. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576070360.
Rafael Lira, Alejandro Casas, José Blancas, Ethnobotany of Mexico: Interactions of People and Plants in Mesoamerica, Springer, 2016; pp. 116-119.ISBN 1461466695
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20141...

Most sold beverages:
https://besttoppers.com/top-10-widely...

Discovery and explanation of Glycolysis (the process of turning sugar into alcohol):
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/the...

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Thomas Shafee for the Glycolysis metabolic pathway diagram. Licenced under Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...