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Boozy tree shrews immune from fermented fruit hangovers

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Uploaded by on Jul 28, 2008

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14411?DCMP=youtube

Biologists are finding that tree shrews convert a lot of the alcohol they consume into a compound they expel into their hair.

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

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

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  • "That's about the same as beer"

    Actually that's about the same as American beer.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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."

  • Yes, lots and lots.

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