Comment on Does alcohol speed up evolution?
dihutenosa@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Of course!
You need to have evolutionary pressure to have directed evolution, and “alcoholism is a disadvantage” is as good as any. By drinking more, one reduces their and their kids’ chances to survive, making those alcoholic genes less frequent.
By the way, I hear propensity to alcoholism is also an inheritable trait.
Yermaw@lemm.ee 5 days ago
I wonder if that cuts the wrong way in humans.
Alcoholism generally keeps people down societally, but I imagine a shitload of babies are born because drunk people didn’t worry about a condom