>To me, the most interesting question about wine and alcohol is, why would
>we want to drink it in the first place--aside from what I guess we could
>call a cultural/social pleasure principle--if it obviously was never a part
>of the human diet until just yesterday in evolutionary time (2,500 years
>ago.)?

Oops, I meant to say 4,500 years ago, in line with my earlier reference to
the advent of wine in approx. 2,500 B.C.

--Ward Nicholson <[log in to unmask]>