Craving a glass of wine with your dinner? The dietary habits of our ape ancestors may be to blame. To better understand the relationship between humans and alcohol, researchers are studying the ...

If scientists are to better understand whether the genes that let us welcome the weekend with a cold beer or enjoy a glass of wine with dinner began with apes eating fermented fruit, then the habit ...

The authors note the sociality fostered by scrumping, linking it to contemporary human habits, in which "co-consumption of alcohol is often integral to feasting and sacred rituals, events that produce ...

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