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Indians (or people present in common day india-pakistan-nepal) were drinking milk before 5500 BC..makes you wonder. And most of that was fermented (cheese (pane
by bobobob420 6y ago
Indians (or people present in common day india-pakistan-nepal) were drinking milk before 5500 BC..makes you wonder. And most of that was fermented (cheese (paneer) and yogurt). Makes you wonder if the fermentation made it easier to eat and helped developed the gene.
- WalterBright 6y agoI heard on a documentary that definitely cheese was more digestible than milk, and helped to popularize cheese with populations that couldn't digest milk.
- sumedh 6y agoLot Indians are lactose intolerant which is weird if they have been drinking milk for thousands of years.
- valarauko 6y agoDo you have a source for the IVC use of milk? I'm not familiar with any direct evidence that the IVC consumed milk or milk products. They did rear animals that can be milked, but it doesn't necessarily follow that the IVC used them for milk rather than meat. The lactase persistence variant found in India, 13910T, is the same as prevalent in Europe, and likely arrived with Steppe pastoralists - after the fall of the Indus Valley Civilization. If the IVC had widespread lactase persistence mutations developing independently of the Steppe, you'd expect other variants to show up in the population, but it doesn't. Lactase persistence in India also closely tracks Steppe ancestry, suggestive that the IVC were largely lactose intolerant. They did have significant cattle, and were the birthplace of Zebu cattle domestication.
- ycombinete 6y agoThe fermentation process involves bacteria consuming the lactose in the milk. This makes the milk products easier to digest for people who are lactose intolerant