The Wild Bits Show

Our drunk ancestors? ft. Aleksey Maro's research


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Are human drinking habits an evolutionary hangover? In this episode of The Wild Bits Show, we sit down with evolutionary biology researcher Aleksey Maro from UC Berkeley to unpack the fascinating “Drunken Monkey Hypothesis”. Discover how wild chimpanzees consume fermenting fruits and what their diets reveal about the origins of our own alcohol metabolism.

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