Stamets@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 17 hours ago[SeanyBoyDraws] Lactose Intolerance Erasurelemmy.worldimagemessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up1680arrow-down122cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1658arrow-down1image[SeanyBoyDraws] Lactose Intolerance Erasurelemmy.worldStamets@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 17 hours agomessage-square102fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareRob BoslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 hours agoI would guess that humans have been around for what, 250k years? And that the vast majority of that didn’t involve a whole lot of milk after age 4. So it wouldn’t have been to much advantage to be able to metabolize lactose.
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I would guess that humans have been around for what, 250k years? And that the vast majority of that didn’t involve a whole lot of milk after age 4.
So it wouldn’t have been to much advantage to be able to metabolize lactose.