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You got it there other way around. It was Europeans who evolved for the consumption of milk (likely due to the environment/diet) while the rest of the world did
by lgvln 5y ago
You got it there other way around. It was Europeans who evolved for the consumption of milk (likely due to the environment/diet) while the rest of the world didn't, like other mammals. The production of lactase to digest lactose drops as adolescence approaches.
I guess you could flip the hypothesis and suggest maybe East Asians didn't (have the time to) evolve to digest alcohol sufficiently and hence the Asian flush. /joke