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The drunken monkey : why we drink and abuse alcohol / / Robert Dudley



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Autore: Dudley Robert <1961-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The drunken monkey : why we drink and abuse alcohol / / Robert Dudley Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, [California] ; ; Los Angeles, California ; ; London, England : , : University of California Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (179 p.)
Disciplina: 394.1/3
Soggetto topico: Drinking of alcoholic beverages
Alcohol - Physiological effect
Alcoholism
Human evolution
Primates - Evolution
Human physiology
Monkeys - Physiology
Soggetto non controllato: addiction treatment
addiction
alcohol abuse
alcohol consumption
alcohol related problems
alcohol
alcoholics
alcoholism
biological anthropology
biology
comparative biology
drinking
evolutionary biology
evolutionary ecology
evolutionary interpretation
fermented fruits
fruit eating
health
humans and alcohol
interdisciplinary
major public health issue
medical impacts
medicine
physical anthropology
primates
public health
social impacts
substance abuse
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Fruits of Fermentation -- 3. On the Inebriation of Elephants -- 4. Aping About in the Forest -- 5. A First-Rate Molecule -- 6. Alcoholics Aren't Anonymous -- 7. Winos in the Mist -- Postscript -- Sources and Recommended Reading -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 book discusses the supporting research, implications of the hypothesis, and the medical and social impacts of alcoholism. The Drunken Monkey is designed for interested readers, scholars, and students in comparative and evolutionary biology, biological anthropology, medicine, and public health.
Titolo autorizzato: The drunken monkey  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95817-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790996203321
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