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minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours agoNo, there is, you get more from your cattle, and on a individual level, less likely to starve. Keeping Lactase production happened at least twice; north europe and a group in west africa.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoSaudi Arabia too. I assume that camel milk came in pretty handy in early tribes surviving the deserts.
minus-squareRob Bos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 hours agoSure, if you a) keep mammals around and b) drink their milk. I’m not convinced domesticated animals have been a thing for all that long, evolutionarily. Long enough for some groups to have adapted, sure. We have adaptations for cooked food, too. [Searches] Cattle probably around 10k years ago.
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No, there is, you get more from your cattle, and on a individual level, less likely to starve.
Keeping Lactase production happened at least twice; north europe and a group in west africa.
Saudi Arabia too. I assume that camel milk came in pretty handy in early tribes surviving the deserts.
Sure, if you a) keep mammals around and b) drink their milk. I’m not convinced domesticated animals have been a thing for all that long, evolutionarily. Long enough for some groups to have adapted, sure. We have adaptations for cooked food, too.
[Searches] Cattle probably around 10k years ago.