![]() ![]() Ĭains, S., Blomeley, C., Kollo, M., Racz, R. Fungal infestation boosts fruit aroma and fruit removal by mammals and birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115:4447-4452. Symbiont selection via alcohol benefits fungus farming by ambrosia beetles. Taste responsiveness of spider monkeys to dietary ethanol. Genetic evidence of widespread variation in ethanol metabolism among mammals: revisiting the ‘myth’ of natural intoxication. Janiak, M.C., Pinto, S.L., Duytschaever, G., Carrigan, M.A. ![]() Ecology and Evolution DOI: 10.1002/ece3.677 Sweet tooth: elephants detect fruit sugar levels based on scent alone. American Journal of Physical Anthropology DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24257 Fermented food consumption in wild nonhuman primates and its ecological drivers. Scientific literature relevant to the “drunken monkey” hypothesis:Īmato, K.R. “Drunken Monkey”, This Way Up, Radio New Zealand (23 Aug. “An evolutionary explanation for why humans are hard-wired to drink”, Business Insider (11 April 2014) “Drunken monkeys: does alcoholism have an evolutionary basis?”, LiveScience (11 April 2014) ![]() “How evolution explains why humans drink and abuse alcohol”, Huffington Post (24 February 2014) “The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol”, American Journal of Human Biology (Nov. “The Drunken Monkey”, Times Higher Education () “Chemistry: Intoxicating Science”, Nature () In addition to introducing this new approach to the relationship of humans to alcohol, the book discusses supporting research, implications of the hypothesis, and the medical and social impacts of alcoholism. Providing a deep-time, interdisciplinary perspective on today’s patterns of alcohol consumption and abuse, I trace the link between the fruit-eating behavior of tropical arboreal primates and the evolution of sensory skills required to localize ripe and fermented fruits that contain sugar and low levels of alcohol. In this book, I present a novel evolutionary interpretation to explain both routine low-level consumption of alcohol as well as persistence of alcohol-related problems. Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. ![]()
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