Автор: Robert Dudley
Название: The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Размер: 10.9 Mb
Язык: Английский

Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the persistence of alcohol-related problems. Providing a deep-time, interdisciplinary perspective on today’s patterns of alcohol consumption and abuse, Dudley traces the link between the fruit-eating behavior of arboreal primates and the evolution of the sensory skills required to identify ripe and fermented fruits that contain sugar and low levels of alcohol.