{"id":10277,"date":"2007-02-28T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T17:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/28\/got-milk.html"},"modified":"2007-02-28T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T17:25:36","slug":"got_milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/28\/got_milk.html","title":{"rendered":"Got Milk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some cool new science showing that the lactose-tolerance gene is a recent development in Europe<\/a> — less than 5,000 years ago — but that it spread rapidly because it enabled consumption of an additional food source (milk) during the winter, improving survival.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Analysis of Neolithic remains, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests no European adults could digest the drink at that time. University College London scientists say that the rapid spread of a gene which lets us reap the benefits of milk shows evolution in action.<\/p>\n

[…] Today, more than 90% of people of northern European origin have the gene.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n


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(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some cool new science showing that the lactose-tolerance gene is a recent development in Europe — less than 5,000 years ago — but that it spread rapidly because it enabled…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41360,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/07\/isaac-asimov-harlan-ellison-and-gene-wolfe-on-science-fiction.html","url_meta":{"origin":10277,"position":0},"title":"Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, and Gene Wolfe on Science Fiction","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Mar-14 7:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Just one of those weird things one inadvertently runs across on YouTube -- a chat on some obscure art channel in 1982 between these three writers, as moderated by Studs Terkel and Calvin Trillin. \u00a0The 24 minutes goes by way too quickly.\ufeff View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8890,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/29\/sinister.html","url_meta":{"origin":10277,"position":1},"title":"Sinister","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Mar-06 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"A summary of current science on handedness. 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