“Our relationship with alcohol goes deep back into evolutionary time, probably about 30 million years.”   Wild chimpanzees have been found to consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager’s alcohol a day from eating ripened fruit, scientists say.   They say this is evidence humans may have got our taste for alcohol from common primate ancestors who relied on fermented fruit - a source of sugar and alcohol - for food.   They measured the amount of ethanol, or pure alcohol, in fruits such as figs and plums. Based on how much they usually eat, the chimps were ingesting around 14 grams of ethanol - that’s equal to around one 330ml bottle of beer.   Tap the link in BBCNews’s bio to read whether it makes them feel drunk.   [📸: Getty]   #Nature #Chimpanzees #BBCNews