Alcohol and Its Role in the Evolution of Human Society
Subtitle: Rsc
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry, The; Royal Society of Chemistry
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 684
ISBN-13: 9781849731614
Subjects: Alcohol, physiological effect; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Social evolution
Description: Archaeologists and anthropologists (especially ethnologists) have for many years realised that man's ingestion of alcoholic beverages may well have played a significant part in his transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist. This unqiue book provides a scientific text on the subject of 'ethanol' that also aims to include material designed to show 'non-scientists' what fermentation is all about. Conversely, scientists may well be surprised to find the extent to which ethanol has played a part in evolution and civilisation of our species.