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13 hours ago
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Chimps' taste for fermented fruit hints at origins of human love of alcohol

Chimpanzees consume alcohol from fermenting fruit, suggesting humans' attraction to alcohol evolved from ancestral primates associating fermented fruit's scent with calorie-dense food sources.
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Boozy chimps fail urine test, confirm hotly debated theory

Chimpanzees regularly consume fermented fruit containing significant alcohol levels, supporting the evolutionary theory that human alcohol attraction originated millions of years ago in great apes.
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Chimps' taste for fermented fruit hints at origins of human love of alcohol

Chimpanzees consume alcohol from fermenting fruit, suggesting humans' attraction to alcohol evolved from ancestral primates associating fermented fruit's scent with calorie-dense food sources.
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5 months ago

Chimpanzees drink the equivalent of two or three beers a day, study says

Chimpanzees regularly ingest alcohol from fermented fruit, consuming daily amounts comparable to two or three human beers, supporting an evolutionary basis for alcohol attraction.
fromSFGATE
5 months ago

Berkeley scientists find more evidence for 'drunken monkey' hypothesis

The new findings published Wednesday in Science Advances support the "drunken monkey" hypothesis, the idea that humans got our taste for alcohol from our primate ancestors. Now, the same UC Berkeley biologist who developed that theory has revealed in this new study just how much ethanol - the intoxicating ingredient in our cocktails - chimps might consume.
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