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Lactose tolerance evolved in Europeans thanks to famine and disease.

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Number) 381 (Date) Aug2022
Medium (Periodical) BBC Science Focus.
Classif 500 BBC
Subject Science and technology
Page 16 - 17
Contents

Wide-ranging evolutionary study overturns the long-held idea that the gene for lactose tolerance spread because it allowed dairy-farming humans to consume milk.

Keywords
Evolution     Gene structure     Lactose intolerance