Ancient Europeans remained intolerant to lactose for 5,000 years after they adopted agriculture

University College Dublin ^ | 22 October 2014 | UCD University Relations

[SunkenCiv]

YouTube: Ancient Europeans remained intolerant to lactose for 5,000 years after they adopted agriculture

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[LukeL]

[chajin]

Only the cream of archaeologists in the study, but they’ll milk it for all it’s worth

[Rameumptom]

"DNA extracted from thirteen individuals from burials from archaeological sites located in the Great Hungarian Plain"

Scientists are overgeneralizing quite a bit. 13 individuals in Hungary = all of early Europe. Especially given the variety in current Africa, with some tribes living next to each other, some are lactose intolerant and some are not, depending on the tribe.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Cheesy!

[Praxeologue]

At the end of the video is an interesting comment that soon we will be able to stick our finger in a machine and it will sequence our genome on the spot.

That would be a great way to end voter fraud.

[Alas Babylon!]

Smurfit Institute of Genetics

[dsc]

“these peoples remained intolerant to lactose (natural sugar in the milk of mammals) for...4,000 years after the onset of cheese-making among Central European Neolithic farmers.”

Are they saying that lactose intolerant people continued to make cheese for 4,000 years after discovering that they couldn’t eat it?

[Cowboy Bob]

Now Europeans celebrate Diversity AND Tolerance!

[Vendome]

Europeans have now been proven to be intolerant, cusses...

Or cuds,,,,, erh puds....

[Moonmad27]

I am reading a book on the history of British food, and back in medieval days, drinking milk from animals was not done — it was reserved for cheesemaking. Almond milk was common — which I had thought was a new invention.

[Tax-chick]

They're not lactose intolerant - they're just bored with Lactose's stupid drama.

[tumblindice]

I scream, you scream. We all scream when we eat ice cream.

[Flag_This]

"Are they saying that lactose intolerant people continued to make cheese for 4,000 years after discovering that they couldn’t eat it?"

If at first you don't succeed...

It's a triumph of the human spirit, I tell you.

[SunkenCiv]

I hate to think what they used for sprinkles.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[Tax-chick]

Ironic humor from my 18-year-old son.

[V K Lee]

In the dark with other lactose quirks but can eat (and LOVE) cheese...no problems there. But milk, ice cream, creamy soups are all a no go-or to be more exact a go go The only way ice cream can be eaten is to eat something at the same time to absorb the liquid. Milk is not missed but the cheese would be. Found chocolate ice cream and Fritos to be delicious combination and do live dangerously on occasion when the urge to have a milk shake or malt just can not be avoided.

[TangoLimaSierra]

They're not lactose intolerant - they're just bored with Lactose's stupid drama.

HA!