Ancient proteins help track early milk drinking in Africa

Got milk? The 1990s ad campaign highlighted the importance of milk for health and wellbeing, but when did we start drinking the milk of other animals? And how did the practice spread? A new study led by scientists from Germany and Kenya highlights the critical role of Africa in the story of dairying, showing that communities there were drinking milk by at least 6,000 years ago.

from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/2M2wAUc

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