The capacity to drink and tolerate milk may have been of tremendous importance for the cultural development of Europe. In a major EU project, being launched and coordinated by Uppsala University in Sweden, researchers will now study when and where this capacity emerged and what it entailed. Lactose tolerance, which provides the ability to drink milk as an adult, varies across countries. In Scandinavia, excluding Finland, it is widely disseminated.


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