The drunken monkey : why we drink and abuse alcohol /

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Author / Creator:Dudley, Robert, 1961- author.
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
©2014
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 154 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481550
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ISBN:9780520958173
0520958179
1306329760
9781306329767
9780520275690
0520275691
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary: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 theo.
Other form:Print version: Dudley, Robert, 1961- Drunken monkey. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014] 9780520275690
Standard no.:10.1525/9780520958173