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‘Drunken monkey theory’ suggests humans inherited a taste for alcohol from primates

Even if you personally abstain from beer, whiskey, and everything in between, there’s little denying others still have the evolutionary taste for booze. People drink on holidays to celebrate, on happy occasions to remember, and during bad times to forget. This latest study, by primatologist Christina Campbell of California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and her graduate student Victoria Weaver, collected and analyzed fruit eaten and discarded by black-handed spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in Panama.

https://www.studyfinds.org/drunken-monkey-theory-alcohol/

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