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Scrumping apes may have sparked humans' taste for alcohol: Study
short by Bhuvnesh Ojha / on Friday, 1 August, 2025
Researchers from Dartmouth and the University of St Andrews have coined the term 'scrumping' for the fondness apes have for eating ripe fruit from the forest floor. The study suggests that eating fermented fruit may have triggered single amino acid change in last common ancestor of humans and African apes that boosted their ability to metabolise alcohol by 40 times.
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