In 2014 Robert Dudley, a professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley wrote a famous book proposing the so-called “drunken monkey” hypothesis of how humans’ attraction to alcohol emerged and evolved. According to Dudley, our love of alcohol arose millions of years ago, when our ape and monkey ancestors discovered that the scent of alcohol led them to ripe, fermenting, and highly nutritious fruits. A new study, in which Professor Dudley collaborated with primatologists from California State University, Northridge (CSUN), provides further evidence that this hypothesis may be true.
https://www.earth.com/news/humans-may-have-inherited-a-love-of-alcohol-from-monkeys/
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