The Evolution of Dairy Consumption

Doctor warner is an anthropologist who researches how the human diet evolved. She spends a lot of time looking at gut bacteria, the microbiom. As part of her research, doctor warner has been digging into a huge puzzle in human evolution - dairy consumption. Many cultures ferment milk into dozens of different forms, from yoger to cheese. Why did we develop so many ways of consuming dairy and how? And this is the real mystery. Have some of us evolved to digesta dairy as adults? See, milk has a sugar called lactos. To digest it, you need a specific engyme called lactes. Lactes is made in the small intestine. So once