People's love of beer shaped yeast's genetic history

Friday, September 30, 2016 - 12:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A group of Belgian researchers has discovered that the yeast used to brew beer today started its life more than 500 years ago, and it’s our love of the frothy beverage that shaped the microbe’s genetic history.

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