Word: bahima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence of his theory, McCracken points to such herding cultures as the Bahima of Uganda, among whom lactase levels remain high throughout life, as they do in most civilized countries today where dairying is practiced and milk intolerance uncommon. Other herders (such as the neighboring Baganda and most of the Bantu in Africa), who keep cattle but do not drink the milk, have low lactase levels after childhood and a high incidence of intolerance to milk. In other parts of the world, the same pattern exists. More than 85% of Thai children over the age of five, for example, cannot...
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