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> A study recently published in the Journal of Proteome Research details how human milk has a stunning 1,606 different protein types essential for newborn growt
by jacalata 10y ago
> A study recently published in the Journal of Proteome Research details how human milk has a stunning 1,606 different protein types essential for newborn growth - a cocktail of many key nutrients that other mammals' milk does not boast. By comparison, the mother's milk of rhesus macaque monkeys - one of humanity's closest primitive relatives - boasts only 518 key proteins.
(http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/13528/20150319/humans-need-stronger-breast-milk-thank-mammals.htm http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/13528/20150319/human...)
- refurb 10y ago1,606 different protein types essential for newborn growth I read that as "if the baby doesn't get all 1,606 of this proteins, it won't develop normally." That sounds like a ridiculous statement.
- jacalata 10y agoIt might be, but that's orthogonal to the point I was making, which was "yep actually human breastmilk is significantly different to chimpanzees".
- mkale 10y agoMaybe. A chimpanzee is much closer to a human than a monkey, which already had ~500 of the ~1600 proteins.
- gus_massa 10y agoI found a handy graph of the primate family: http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v15/n5/fig_tab/nrg3707_F1.html http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v15/n5/fig_tab/nrg3707_F1.... > The time of separation of the human lineage from the rhesus macaque lineage is dated at 28–25 million years ago, whereas the human and chimpanzee lineages are believed to have diverged ~9–5 million years ago.