• 2deck@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Ohhh if they were anything like me… they would have if they could… which they probably were… being my ancestors…

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    6 months ago

    Ten thousand years of “evolution” (wrong use of the word btw) versus hundreds of millions of years of actual evolution

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      It would be more adequate to define it as “population adaptation” in the case of milk tolerance after the age of weaning.

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      I’m not sure but I do think that evolution played a big role here. Probably not for the reasons in the OP, but because it’s a way to convert grass into portable food with decent long-term storage (cheese). This is huge for migratory populations, but still helpful for sedentary ones due to winter.