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2018-09-25 Science & Technology
Early humans grew grains for beer, not bread, new study suggests
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-25 05:13|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 they were sedentary even before agriculture became a mainstay

Man cave couch potato beer drinkers.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-09-25 08:16||   2018-09-25 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 so this is evidence for an evolutionary decrease in intelligence.....?
Posted by Jiggs Crinenter4883 2018-09-25 09:25||   2018-09-25 09:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Beer is a food, too.
Posted by Bobby 2018-09-25 10:23||   2018-09-25 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4 The alcohol in the beer made the water safe to drink.

They drank beer because the water was liquid pestilence.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-09-25 10:27||   2018-09-25 10:27|| Front Page Top

#5 He only made the bread to make the pizza to go with it.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-09-25 10:38||   2018-09-25 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Beer... so much more than just a breakfast drink.
Posted by DarthVader 2018-09-25 10:48||   2018-09-25 10:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Fortunately, farming techniques improved and grain yields went up, enabling the keeping of animals. That allowed us to eat steak while drinking beer.
Posted by Iblis 2018-09-25 11:52||   2018-09-25 11:52|| Front Page Top

#8 so this is evidence for an evolutionary decrease in intelligence.....?
after the agricultural revolution was complete we were no longer "hunters" and "nomads" as we had been for the previous million or so years. so yes we started or de-evolution about that time and got small, weak and soft as a result
Posted by 746 2018-09-25 12:56||   2018-09-25 12:56|| Front Page Top

#9 The humans who did that agriculture shit did, but out here, it's an all-the-raw-deer-liver-you-can-eat buffet.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-09-25 15:27||   2018-09-25 15:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Alcohol isn't there anything it can't do?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-25 15:34||   2018-09-25 15:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Beer has food value.
Food does not have beer value.
Posted by swksvolFF 2018-09-25 17:52||   2018-09-25 17:52|| Front Page Top

#12 The alcohol in the beer made the water safe to drink.

Nah. The boiling made it safe to drink; the yeast kept other things from growing in it; the flavorings made it shelf-stable.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-09-25 20:02||   2018-09-25 20:02|| Front Page Top

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