Alcohol Abuse: Drunken Monkeys: Does Alcoholism Have an Evolutionary Basis?

Drunken Monkeys: Does Alcoholism Have an Evolutionary Basis?
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As the child of an alcoholic father, Robert Dudley long wondered what caused the destructive allure of alcohol. Then while working in the Panamanian forest as a biologist, Dudley saw monkeys eating ripe fruit, which likely contained small amounts of the stuff, and an answer occurred to him: Maybe alcoholism is an evolutionary hangover. Had fruit-eating animals, including human ancestors, gained …
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