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GEE's Prof Mark Thomas reports in Nature on pottery shards putting a date on Africa’s dairying

21 June 2012

Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) comments on the discovery that North Africans may have been making yoghurt 7,000 years ago, suggesting a way that the region’s inhabitants may have evolved to tolerate milk as adults.

Nature paper

Mark Thomas

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