By Tobias Carroll Plenty of humans enjoy the experience of drinking alcohol. It does beg one question, though: is there a scientific reason for this? In his 2014 book The Drunken Monkey, Robert Dudley ventured deeply into history to find an answer to this question. “The argument here is that our attraction to alcohol goes back about 18 million years, to the origin of the great apes, if not 45 million years with the origin of diurnal fruit-eating primates,” Dudley said in an interview around the time of his book’s release. It’s a compelling hypothesis, with one challenge to other scientists — h…