SciShow: Why Do Humans Like to Get High?

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their 60+ courses in math, computer science, and scientific thinking. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. "We’ve told you before that there really isn’t any evidence that animals consume mind-altering substances because they feel good to them. This makes it appear that the fondness for psychoactive drugs is, pretty...human. What is it about our species that makes us so attracted to these substances?" Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Rodents https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2007.1673 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5741108/ https://theoutline.com/post/2205/this-38-year-old-study-is-still-spreading-bad-ideas-about-addiction?zd=1&zi=mhy2cxbh https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3683998/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128122020000026 https://www.pnas.org/content/105/44/17145 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299950853_Animal_models_of_drug_relapse_and_craving [PDF] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6110170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695138/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3567158/ Primates https://www.researchgate.net/publication/20800298_Voluntary_consumption_of_beverage_alcohol_by_Vervet_monkeys_Population_screening_descriptive_behavior_and_biochemical_measures [PDF] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/009130579390232I https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275104291_The_Drunken_Monkey_Why_We_Drink_and_Abuse_Alcohol_Robert_Dudley_Berkeley_University_of_California_Press_2014_154_pp [PDF] https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/44/4/295/800278 https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/44/4/304/800294 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2664497?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents [PDF] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.150150 https://theconversation.com/drunken-monkeys-only-humans-really-dont-know-when-theyve-had-enough-43093 http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?pid=S2011-20842016000200008&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en Humans https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2007.1673 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871699001647 Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sivapithecus_sivalensis.JPG


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