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Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:43 pm
by Malcolm
Are a thing. A thing you might not be alive without.
The all-too-human behaviour adds weight to the “drunken monkey hypothesis”, which states that natural selection favoured primates with a taste for alcohol, because it stimulated the appetite, helped them hunt for fruit and so boosted calorific intake.

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:57 pm
by GORDON
I think that's a stretch.

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:03 pm
by Malcolm
There's also the theory that communal drinking parties facilitated diplomatic relations way, way back during early human civilization.