Drunken monkey hypothesis

The drunken monkey hypothesis proposes that human attraction to ethanol may derive from dependence of the primate ancestors of Homo sapiens on ripe and fermenting fruit as a dominant food source. Ethanol naturally occurs in ripe and overripe fruit when yeasts ferment sugars, and consequently early primates have evolved a genetically based behavioral attraction to the molecule. [[Category:Uncategorized

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