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It's interesting that cows could drink contaminated water and convert it to pure milk that humans could drink. Why didn't the cows get sick on the same contaminated water that would have sickened humans?
Another example of white privilege?
My guess is that persistence lactose tolerance greatly reduced mortality in the latter stages of childhood.
I am lactose tolerant (Northern European descent). Husband is not (Southern European descent) - and every once in a while I forget... made linguini alfredo one night, which is full of cheese, cream and butter - and it sent him to the bathroom for most of the rest of the night.
I’d totally forgotten - and apparently he had too.
We’re still married, BTW.
"This is a huge difference when you consider that there cannot be many more than 120 human generations between then and today."Really useful to remind ourselves how few generations there are when measured against years. It's like viewing yards versus miles. Makes so much more sense in human history to think in terms of generations instead of years.
