Evolution may stop us drinking alcohol

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3166, 2018, pág. 6
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Humans are still evolving, and alcohol may be helping to drive the process. A variant of a gene that protects us against alcohol addiction, possibly by making boozing intolerable, seems to be favoured by evolution. Benjamin Voight at the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues looked for bits of the human genome that have evolved over the last few thousand years