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Evolutionary anthropology

the hypothesis that human attraction to alcohol derives from ancestral primate frugivory, in which ethanol odor signaled ripe fruit.

In evolutionary anthropology, drunken monkey hypothesis refers to the hypothesis that human attraction to alcohol derives from ancestral primate frugivory, in which ethanol odor signaled ripe fruit. This meaning comes from Dudley (2000) in The Quarterly Review of Biology.[1]

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Dudley, R. (2000). Evolutionary Origins of Human Alcoholism in Primate Frugivory. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 75(1), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1086/393255

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