Cultural adaptation enabled people to eventually drink cows’ milk without illness.
Evidence
So drinking cows’ milk would probably have made these early Egyptians very ill, but over centuries their descendants and many other populations eventually adapted to it. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 167
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 167
- XREF: connects to: US policy promoted milk to people who could not digest it from 1946 onward — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 300