Stamets to Comic [email protected] • 2 months ago[SeanyBoyDraws] Lactose Intolerance Erasurelemmy.worldimagemessage-square135fedilinkarrow-up1858cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareRob BoslinkfedilinkEnglish9•2 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-22 months agoNo, there is, you get more from your cattle, and on a individual level, less likely to starve. Keeping Lactase happened at least twice; north europe and a group in west africa.
minus-squareRob BoslinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-22 months agoSure, if you a) keep mammals around and b) drink their milk. I’m not convinced domesticated animals have been a thing for all that long, evolutionarily. Long enough for some groups to have adapted, sure. We have adaptations for cooked food, too. [Searches] Cattle probably around 10k years ago.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoSaudi Arabia too. I assume that camel milk came in pretty handy in early tribes surviving the deserts.
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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 happened at least twice; north europe and a group in west africa.
Sure, if you a) keep mammals around and b) drink their milk. I’m not convinced domesticated animals have been a thing for all that long, evolutionarily. Long enough for some groups to have adapted, sure. We have adaptations for cooked food, too.
[Searches] Cattle probably around 10k years ago.
Saudi Arabia too. I assume that camel milk came in pretty handy in early tribes surviving the deserts.