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“Because of the distinctive adaptive challenges we face as a species, we require a way to inject controlled doses of chaos into our lives.”

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Book:Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

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“Human rulers get poisoned or decapitated or simply voted out of office all the time, as our set of personal desires, our chimpanzee DNA, rears its individualistic head.”

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Book:Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

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“Our dependence on culture means that our minds need to be open to others, so that we can learn from them.”

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Book:Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

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“Humans transform the world through our creative technologies, and we cannot survive without them.”

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Book:Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

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“Our desire for alcohol is not an evolutionary mistake. There are good reasons for why we get drunk.”

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Book:Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

Source: Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization