The Drunken Monkey
Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol
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. In addition to introducing this new theory of the relationship of humans to alcohol, the b…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95817-3
- EAN: 9780520958173
- Produktnummer: 21596366
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 178 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'977 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Robert Dudley is Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. His research on the evolutionary origins of alcohol consumption has appeared in numerous journals.
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