Boozy tree shrews immune from fermented fruit hangovers

[benoitcsirois]

"That's about the same as beer"

Actually that's about the same as American beer.

[JetJL]

wait? they are our fore fathers of the drunks today,

[rovrola]

"...evolutionary forces that drive humans to drink." LOL

[brokenshines]

"the evolutionary forces that drives humans to drink" ?

me wanting to have a good time and me not having the guts hit on sluts sober isn't really a fucking mystery.

[EVLWNS]

They mean why do you human beings like alcohol and its effects, and why we get addicted sometimes.

[brokenshines]

both of those questions has already been answered through science, though. you don't know why alcohol is addictive?

[EVLWNS]

Medicine has thoroughly investigated the chemical reasons behind addiction, it's true. But no one is quite sure of why those chemical reasons themselves exist. Evolutionary biology asks the 'why behind the why' kind of questions.

[xraysatilite]

Is there any proof to evelution frogs and butterflys?

[EVLWNS]

Yes, lots and lots.

[axrarx]

Bullfucking shit asshole. How does a butterfly wing evolve is there is no use for the wing that isnt all.

[EVLWNS]

Ah, I see we have an idiot in our midst. The wing evolves from something - anything really - that the ancestral 'butterfly' possesses. A 'wing that's no good for flying' may be good for something else, like something I can't even imagine. And it doesn't have to be perfect to be useful, it just has to work (nothing is perfect anyway). A shit wing is better than no wing at all, sometimes. Over generations the 'design' gets better.

[znzprod]

did you see the inch worm?

[stuffisgd]

and then the shrew went back to his family and beat his mate.

[superfisto]

1/3 of life in a drunken haze? Sounds like college.

[BMWxM3xGTR]

maybe some day thousands of years from now, humans will develope like the shrew and be unaffected by alcohol

[A11ex]

NOOOOOO!!! What a horrible vision of the future.

[BMWxM3xGTR]

ur retarded. there is nothing cool or fun about being drunk

[Davesteps]

Theres nothing cool or fun about fucking BMW M3's either

[BMWxM3xGTR]

oh but i disagree. my BME E36 is fast and fun.

[EVLWNS]

There's plenty fun about it, Mr. Teetotaler. It only gets bad when you're too weak in the mind to say, "I'll stop now."

[Avalikia]

Actually, it only gets bad when you're too DRUNK to say "I'll stop now"... There's enough strong-minded alcoholics out there for it to be a matter of willpower.

[thebossisheretostay]

we can only hope, but for now a druken haze will do

[killaSauve]

one day humans will be unaffected by headache... only the effect of alcohol will stay :D

[Salmo77]

I am a shrew :'(

[BeondaPale]

survival of the most plastered?

[dafttool]

college graduates?

[dafttool]

Evolutionary forces to drink? How about to eat instead? The shrews are feeding on a liquid that contains calories which sustain them, a liquid which is also apparently alcoholic in nature.

[grasseline]

exactly we arn't even at all FORCED to drink. since most of the food we eat contains water.

[RoySchl]

if there is an evolutionary force to drink, than i am an extrem mutatant...

[grimsdottir]

i expelled alcohol into a friend's hair once in college... along with a quart of chinese shrimp fried rice we'd had for dinner.

[dmnxCGi]

LOL!

[nepalihercules]

boooooooring

[Magnulus]

Evolutionary forces? You mean the need to lose control and make an arse out of yourself? Yeah, I bet. ^_^

[Ephemerance]

This makes me wonder if a foetal shrew would experience a drunken state in the womb and slowly become immune to it by the time it reaches adult hood, or whether its quirky metabolic process is fully functional at birth when it has no hair.

[Freemmaann]

wow a drunken mouse xD

[alex3914]

I love drinking! Its good in moderaration and helps me focus for studying. lol