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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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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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"...wakes long after his usual hour would turn his face toward milk as quickly as i hurried toward that stream to make still finer..."
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"...now a great day the one of the stars and her milk and the flowers are still shining bright even in the world how..."
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"Well, I'm thinking maybe they can say like milk and honey, the old metaphor."
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"...his side at their return into the fold their lack of milk is greater though there are some indeed who fearing harm stay near..."
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"...not act like the foolish, wanton lamb that leaves its mother's milk and heedless wants to war against and harm its very self. These..."
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"...letting you go to bed because J.D. Delay left to get milk 18 years ago and didn't come back because our love child isn't..."
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