Alcohol can make you woozy and nauseous when you drink too much , but why do humans love it? Wild chimpanzees may hold the answer.
Chimps could be eating enough fermented fruit each day and consuming nearly two cocktails' worth of alcohol, a new study, published by the journal Science Advances found.
The study shows that an African chimp's diet "could deliver 14 grams of ethanol daily," according to a news release from the University of California, Berkeley.
"When you adjust for body mass, because chimps weigh about (88 pounds) versus a typical human at (154 pounds), it goes up to nearly two drinks," Aleksey Maro, study researcher and UC Berkeley graduate student, said in a statement.
The study suggests that humans' attraction to alcohol could stem from an evolutionary link betw