Do you think Darwin is right

[SamuelRSmith]

The_vagabond7 said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Booyah, some German dudes just completed a rought draft of the full genome (63% so far) of the Neanderthal! Fuckers were lactose intolerant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genome_project

 

Yeah I found that interesting. Agriculture and the ability to farm animals has gradually evolved us to accept milk. Getting nutrition from milk after being weened was a big advantage to a culture trying to farm food. Even today Lactose tolerance is only at 80%. I thought that was pretty damn interesting too.

 

 Taken from the article that JaggedSac posted:

In another example, the researchers noted that in China and most of Africa, few people can digest fresh milk into adulthood. Yet in Sweden and Denmark, the gene that makes the milk-digesting enzyme lactase remains active, so almost everyone can drink fresh milk, explaining why dairy farming is more common in Europe than in the Mediterranean and Africa, Harpending says.

Interesting Stuff.