Evolutionary explanation is speculative; metabolic adaptation does not establish that intoxication is beneficial. The Franklin passage needs its original letter before quotation.
A Short History of Drunkenness (2017), Evolution
The opening chapter links animal intoxication, ethanol metabolism and human appetites to the drunken-monkey hypothesis.
chap. 1, “Evolution”
chap. 1, “Evolution”
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The opening chapter links animal intoxication, ethanol metabolism and human appetites to the drunken-monkey hypothesis.
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Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness (2017), chap. 1, “Evolution”. Original paraphrase, not quotation. The private PDF retrieval range is retained in Verification Notes.
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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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