Forsyth, Mark. A Short History of Drunkenness. Viking, 2017. ISBN9780241980101. Supplied185-page PDF.
The opening chapter links animal intoxication, ethanol metabolism and human appetites to the drunken-monkey hypothesis.
Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness (Viking, 2017), chap. 1, “Evolution”.
Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness (Viking, 2017), chap. 1, “Evolution”.
chap. 1, “Evolution”
Forsyth, Short History of Drunkenness, chap. 1, “Evolution”.
chap. 1, “Evolution”
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Evolutionary explanation is speculative; metabolic adaptation does not establish that intoxication is beneficial. The Franklin passage needs its original letter before quotation.
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