Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural"
hector@lemmy.today 7 hours agoOutside of mother’s milk our ape ancestors weren’t getting any dairy though. Maybe the last 10k, even longer, years. Not the last 100k, to say nothing of the last 10 million.
Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural"
hector@lemmy.today 7 hours agoOutside of mother’s milk our ape ancestors weren’t getting any dairy though. Maybe the last 10k, even longer, years. Not the last 100k, to say nothing of the last 10 million.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
You are right it is a newer adaptation, but one that was clearly advantageous to our species. There are not many evolutionary changes that occurred independently in 3-5 different populations.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3048992/#%3A~%3A….