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minus-squareRob BoslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 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.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoNo, there is, you get more from your cattle, and on a individual level, less likely to starve. Keeping Lactase production happened at least twice; north europe and a group in west africa.
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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.
No, there is, you get more from your cattle, and on a individual level, less likely to starve.
Keeping Lactase production happened at least twice; north europe and a group in west africa.