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The second steppe innovation is dairy and lactose tolerance, which Jiang treats as a biological-economic change that made milk usable as food.
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Milk
Farmers were more vulnerable to plague because they lived densely with animals, pigs, and rats, while steppe people lived farther apart, were more hygienic in Jiang's account, and were physically stronger from milk and exercise.
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Jiang says protein and milk made steppe populations on average about 20 centimeters taller and physically stronger than farmers in the Near East and Europe.
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Farmers were more vulnerable to plague because they lived densely with animals, pigs, and rats, while steppe people lived farther apart, were more hygienic in Jiang's account, and were physically stronger from milk and exercise.
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The lecture says Yamnaya dairy consumption and protein intake made them significantly taller than farmers, with Jiang giving an average difference of about 20 centimeters.
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"...they realized is, you know what? We can also drink their milk, okay? Dairy. And this is important because for most of human history,..."
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"...lot, guys, okay? The reason why is the farmers didn't drink milk, they could not eat meat, mostly, and they could not drink milk...."
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"Okay, let's talk about the plague, okay? The plague, yes. It killed most Europeans, yes. Because Europeans were living on farms, right? So they..."
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"...third thing is your body is a lot stronger. You're drinking milk, okay? You're getting a lot of physical exercise. Does that make sense?..."
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"...Okay? Okay, in about 4500 BCE, very few people could drink milk. And by the time of the Anaya, about a thousand years later,..."
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"...no more cryptocurrency trading for you guys, okay? Learn how to milk a cow or kill a chicken or grow food, whatever, okay? But..."
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"...of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even..."
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"...say that's your story. Let's go step by step. the sweet milk of her udder, and nothing evil grow in thee any longer, unless..."
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"...tolerance. You may not know this, but most humans cannot drink milk naturally. Okay? So you need to develop the enzymes to drink milk..."
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"...useless, and even hostile to humans into wool, fat, clothing, tents, milk, yogurt, cheese, meat, marrow, and bone, the foundation of both life and..."
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"...kuma woman shaman opened a womb before her blood and breast milk gave rice rivers and her ribs to the mountain ridges of the..."
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"...words like bull, cow, ox, ram, eel, lamb, pig, piglet, sour milk, wine, curds, field, dog, shear wool, textiles, scratch plow, oxen, yoke, grain,..."
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