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December 28, 2012

How Did Humans Develop Lactose Tolerance?

Helen Thompson, NPR


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Got milk? Ancient European farmers who made cheese thousands of years ago certainly had it. But at that time, they lacked a genetic mutation that would have allowed them to digest raw milk's dominant sugar, lactose, after childhood.

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