Could the alcohol-free fad undo thousands of years of human evolution?

Myanmar’s national elections  conclude this weekend, but we already know the military backed Union Solidarity and Development Party will win, a preordained result according to observers, in a sham poll designed to legitimise the junta’s rule. Meanwhile the nation’s democratically elected leader, Nobel prize winning Aung Sun Suu Kyi is languishing in prison, her son Kim Aris has had no contact with her for several years. As a species we’ve been intoxicated for millennia. According to philosopher and historian Professor Edward Slingerland alcohol has advanced our civilisation. But is a great detox underway?