It must certainly vary across African populations as well. Milk is a
large part of the Masai diet
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people#Diet>
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/22/2013 7:21 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 4/22/2013 6:44 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> >One needs to look no further than milk to see this. Over the past
>> >several thousand years, adult humans have gone from the total
>> >inability to consume milk products, to it being a good thing.
> Just the kind of blindness that makes us look so bad to the larger world.
> What you say is only generally true for
> Caucasians, whose distant ancestors developed that ability when they migrated
> North. It is not generally true of those
> with darker colored skin. Most native children and virtually all adults in
> Africa cannot digest milk. Even the ability
> to digest human milk declines after weaning.
>
> If I recall correctly, tolerance varies across Asian populations.
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