Ancient Dna Solves Milk Mystery Summary

In her article Ancient DNA solves milk mystery Erika Check explains how a team of scientists from Germany and UK worked together to find out that the mutations that keep lactase gene turned on among modern Europeans are not found in the DNAs of the skeletons of the ancient Europeans. This is a very important finding, because it shows that lactase gene mutations spread quickly after humans learned to herd cattle, because the mutations were beneficiary for those who had