[Alter Kaker]

This makes a lot of intuitive sense. It's remarkable how well they've been able to pinpoint this specific evolutionary event.

[Old Professer]

I fail to understand how the evidence is convincing that the genes followed diligently such a commonsense assumption that after weaning, the enzyme would be no longer needed and then made unavailable.

Humans consume many things that are not perfectly digestible without any great ill effect.

The domestication of mammal herds makes available a source of excess milk but by itself doesn't prove that the enzyme had remained switched off thousands of years before.

[LonePalm]

I think I am becoming lactose ambivalent.

'La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.' - Auguste Escoffier
(Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[r9etb]

I'm just glad they decided to milk the girl cows.

[Alter Kaker]

*Ping* to an interesting article surrounded by an ocean of creationists.

[abishai]

So if I have a friend who is lactose intolerant, can I tell her that she is the missing (now found) link between humans and apes?

[Central Scrutiniser]

Interesting article, thanks for posting it.

Of course, the anti science luddites will misunderstand, and try to use the bible as a science text.

But, for everyone else, its a fascinating report and we are just learning about the complexities of human evolution.

[quark]

A more recent example:

[quark]

[Radix]

A year and a half after this Got milk? report comes the NY Times with their slant on things?

 

[fish hawk]

The only thing that is evolving is evolution itself. Not a month goes by without reading some "New" B S.