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    Drunk Monkeys

    UC Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley explains his "drunken monkey" hypothesis for how humans developed a taste for alcohol.

    Jef Akst
    Feb 28, 2015

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    alcoholism
    evolution
    human evolution
    primate
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