The mystery of early milk consumption in Europe

New ways to explain the rise in genetic changes needed to digest milk.

For decades, it was assumed that the beginnings of human consumption of animal milk occurred in tandem with the spread of the genetic changes needed for people to digest milk into adulthood. However, studies of ancient milk-drinking populations — using methods such as the analysis of ancient DNA, lipids and proteins — indicate that the relationship between these developments is more complex than that.

of ancient dairy fat and protein residues shows that consumption of animal milk began in Anatolia in the seventh millennium

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