First It Was Beer

[ithildin]

Now it's milk. I swear, I'm in need of an intervention or something. No matter what the subject, pretty much everything makes me think of Methos. You think I'm kidding? I'm reading this article: Study Detects Recent Instance of Human Evolution (which is quite fascinating BTW, and I would recommend reading it if you're into that sort of thing) and I get to this bit:

...Such a mutation is known to have arisen among an early cattle-raising people, the Funnel Beaker culture, which flourished some 5,000 to 6,000 years ago in north-central Europe. People with a persistently active lactase gene have no problem digesting milk and are said to be lactose tolerant.

So what was the first thing that I thought of? Yeah.

Like I said, I need an intervention, since I'm obviously disturbed and in need of serious help.

Comments

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

I think I had this beaten out of me in uni. Overall my course was Archaeology & Anthropology, and I had planned to concentrate on archaeology until the lecturers made us deconstruct absolutely everything. It's easy to joke that archaeology is guesswork based on fragments, but they don't half analyse the stuff first. In the end I went with biological anthropology and just read archaeological stuff for fun and research :)

Of course this does also mean that I do an academic squee at such articles and go find another version (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=727EA883-E7F2-99DF-36D89AB12E930315&pageNumber=1&catID=1) with chromosomal data. Fanfic squeeing comes later *lol*