Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 20:1
"This one emerges from Berserkely, naturally. Darwine-o Robert Dudley
delights in a new study that showed monkeys eating fruit with 1-2%
ethanol. To him, this confirms his 8-year-old “drunken monkey
hypothesis” about why humans get stoned.
“For the first time, we have been able to show, without ashadow of a doubt, that wild primates, with no human interference, consume fruit-containing ethanol,” said Campbell, a CUSN professor of anthropology who obtained her Ph.D. in anthropology from Berkeley in 2000. “This is just one study, and more need to be done, but it looks like there may be some truth to that ‘drunken monkey’ hypothesis — that the proclivity of humans to consume alcohol stems from a deep-rooted affinity of frugivorous (fruit-eating) primates for naturally-occurring ethanol within ripe fruit.”
Dudley even wrote a book about it, The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol.
No fooling. My; what will the Women’s Christian Temperance Union say
about this proof of evolution? Alcoholic fathers now have an excuse;
they can blame Darwin."
CEH