A research team at Canada’s Simon Fraser University says the brewing of beer was the first sign of evolution into human civilisation.
Current theory has it that grain was first domesticated for food. But since the 1950s, many scholars have found circumstantial evidence that supports the idea
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Beer’s role in civilisation
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