A Potted History of Milk
PhysOrg.com | August 2008 | University of Bristol
Posted on 08/08/2008 11:30:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Prehistoric Britons’ Taste For Milk
BBC | 1-27-2003
Posted on 01/27/2003 4:06:39 PM PST by blam
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The matter of milkNo good story about human design flaws can pass up a discussion of flatulence -- and science has addressed the kind that would occur if everyone in the world drank a tall glass of milk at the same time.
Geneticist Pragna Patel of the University of Southern California said one of her favorite examples of evolution in progress involves the gene that determines who can digest the sugars in milk and who cannot.
From genetic studies it appears that so-called lactose intolerance was our ancestral state.
A few people, however, were genetically gifted with an enzyme called lactase, which breaks down lactose, and in groups that started drinking lots of milk around 10,000 years ago, that version of the gene started to take over.
Scientists recently sequenced the lactase gene and found 43 different variations that allow adults to drink the milk of other animals.
"It's the first clear evidence of convergent evolution," Patel said, though it's not known whether those lacking this innovation failed to pass on their genes because they suffered from lack of nutrition or just didn't get invited to any parties.
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Indianas drink a lot of milk. Their per capita consumption is about 3x that of an American, IIRC.
Pain ‘linked with low vitamin D’
BBC NEWS | 2008/08/11 | NA
Posted on 08/31/2008 8:31:16 PM PDT by neverdem
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Vitamin D may protect against heart attack -study
Reuters | 10 June 2008 | Will Dunham
Posted on 06/10/2008 6:21:22 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
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Vitamin D Theory of Autism
Vitamin-D council | Dr. John Cannell
Posted on 07/07/2008 11:38:46 AM PDT by Coleus
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How the First Farmers Colonized the Mediterranean
New York Times | August 11, 2008 | Nicholas Wade
Posted on 08/15/2008 11:05:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Some of the results also might depend upon whether the milk was raw or pasteurized.
The origins of milk consumption?
That’s easy. It was the cats.