Drunken monkey hypothesis
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Drunken monkey hypothesis
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The drunken monkey hypothesis proposes that human attraction to alcohol may derive from dependence of the primate ancestors of Homo sapiens on ripe and fermenting fruit as a dominant food source. Ethanol naturally occurs in ripe and overripe fruit when yeasts ferment sugars, and consequently early primates have evolved a genetically based behavioral attraction to the molecule. This hypothesis was originally proposed by Robert Dudley of the University of California at Berkeley, and was the subjec
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