Santos Alonso

Santos Alonso

Santos Alonso
Position

Permanent Senior Researcher, acreditated as Research Professor, in the Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Reaction: Study says humans drank milk long before we could digest it

A study published in the journal Nature has found that ancient human populations consumed milk during adulthood long before we were able to digest lactose beyond infancy. The genetic variant that allows us to do so was not increased in frequency by milk consumption, but by famine and infection, according to their hypothesis.