On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 10:51  AM, Lillian Alicia wrote:
> LOL,you should see the horses in Maui after they eat a bunch of fallen,
> fermented mangoes.  Ever seen a drunk horse?
>
>
We used to feed the pony wild marijuana that grew along the fencerow,
but we could never find enough to have any visible effect. The stuff
never grows where grazing animals live, they love it.

I wonder why Europeans should have higher alcohol tolerance than other
groups that must have had access to alcohol much longer, like the
Chinese and some Africans. Seems strange to me. (That goes for milk
tolerance as well.) Europe was so far behind in agriculture, as well as
having a much shorter fruiting season, that it should be one of the
places where people have the least tolerance, not the most. My guess is
that it is purely  chance variation in the founding populations, not
selection at work.