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by idnefju 1605 days ago
some humans have been drinking animal dairy for so many thousands of years that some ethnicities have evolved to have a lactose breaking down mutation into adulthood
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>evolved

Not disagreeing, but that's a much nicer way of saying that nobody wanted to mate with the ones having constant diarrhea.

The amount of dairy and refined dairy products people consume today, like meat, is orders of magnitude bigger than back in the day.