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ReviewBioscience2025

Fermented fruits: scrumping, sharing, and the origin of feasting.

Nathaniel J Dominy, Luke D Fannin, Erin R Vogel, Martha M Robbins, Catherine Hobaiter

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Review in Bioscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Kava consumption and the rise of sociopolitical complexity in Oceania.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Nathaniel J DominyDepartment of Anthropology, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5916-418X
Luke D FanninDepartment of Anthropology, Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolution, Environment, Society, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4810-4442
Erin R VogelDepartment of Anthropology, Center for Human Evolution Studies, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6304-5423
Martha M RobbinsDepartment of Primate Behavior and Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6037-7542
Catherine HobaiterSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3893-0524

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mounting evidence points to the importance of fermented fruits in the diets of tropical frugivores, especially African apes. But how has this fundamental aspect of ape ecology escaped scientific attention over the past six decades? Here we draw inspiration from the Middle Ages to fill an essential void in scientific discourse.

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PMID40919336
PMCPMC12412291

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