The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
But my guess is, and it's been argued, that we have been enjoying alcohol since before we were homo sapiens. - Really? - Yes. That primates, in fact, when you observe them, will go after fermenting fruit and enjoy it. And seek out and pick those fruits and not others.
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We've been enjoying alcohol before we were homo sapiens. In the archaeological record, the dates have been pushed back now to the very beginnings of agriculture, and in many different places. So in China and the Middle East.