Anthropology of Food

In the News . . .

• Scientists Track Last 2,000 Years of British Evolution -- Nature (17 May 2016)
  
  
• Lactose intolerance has parallels to mental illness progression, study suggests -- Will Chu, FoodNavigator (10 May 2016)
  
  
• Everything You Need to Know About Lactose Intolerance -- New Scientist (23 July 2015)
  
  
• European Farmers Were Still Lactose Intolerant After 5,000 Years -- Past Horizons (21 October 2014)
  
  
• Ancient Europeans intolerant to lactose for 5,000 years after they adopted agriculture -- Science Daily (21 October 2014)
  
  
• Lactase Persistence Alleles Reveal Ancestry of Southern African Khoe pastoralists -- EurekAlert (03 April 2014)
  
  
• Africans' Ability to Digest Milk Linked to Spread of Cattle Raising -- Science Daily (13 March 2014)
  
  
• A thousand years ago, Central Europeans digested milk as well as us today -- Science Daily (23 January 2014)
  
  
• Famine, Not Calcium Absorption, May Have Driven Evolution of Milk Tolerance in Europeans -- Science Daily (22 November 2014)
  
  
• The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease by Daniel Lieberman – Review -- Guardian (17 October 2013)
  
  
• Misguided Nostalgia for Our Paleo Past -- Marlene Zuk, The Chronicle Review (18 February 2012)
  
  
• An Evolutionary Whodunit: How Did Humans Develop Lactose Tolerance? NPR (2012-12-28)

• Lactonse Intolerance -- K. David Patterson, Cambridge World HIstory of Food
  
  
• Significance Of Milk In Development Of Culture To Be Studied -- Science Daily (04 September 2009)
  
  
• Stone Age Scandinavians Unable to Digest Milk, Study Shows -- ScienceDaily (01 April 2010)