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Monkeys often eat fruit containing alcohol, shedding light on our taste for booze

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2022-03-31

For 25 years, UC Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley has been intrigued by humans' love of alcohol. In 2014, he wrote a book proposing that our attraction to booze arose millions of years ago, when our ape and monkey ancestors discovered that the scent of alcohol led them to ripe, fermenting and nutritious fruit.

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https://phys.org/news/2022-03-monkeys-fruit-alcohol-booze.html