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Re:Human ancestors developed a taste for alcohol 10M years ago by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:25PM (#8696411)
> I don't have a link to the video but: There's an island in the caribbean that has little monkeys who love to steal tourists' alcoholic drinks. Only about 12% of the monkeys drink the alcohol, the same rate of alcoholism in humans. I thought that was interesting, monkeys and humans have the same rate of alcoholism

You seem to equate "drinking alcohol" with "alcoholism" for monkeys, but not for humans. This might be justified -- maybe only monkeys with something reasonably analogous to alcoholism will drink alcohol at all -- but it seems a lot like taking numbers that match and inferring a pattern even though the thing being measured isn't the same.

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Re:Human ancestors developed a taste for alcohol 10M years ago by ChrisNorstrom on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:35PM (#8696456)
Sorry I forgot to specify 12% of the monkeys repeatedly and habitually stole alcoholic drinks. Much higher numbers of monkeys steal the alcohol but after tasting it abandon the drinks.
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