Episode 8: Nutrition and evolution, part 2: Of milk-drinking mutants, vegan dogs and lactose-free Stone Age diets

In part 2 of our podcast on nutrition and evolution, we look specifically at how culture has influenced genes - and not just human genes, but animal genes too. In particular, the sedentarization of humans around 10,000 years ago and the associated cultural changes - away from hunter-gatherers and towards agriculture and animal husbandry - had profound consequences for our diet, which in turn influenced our genes over the following millennia. Presenter Peer Kittel and student Jule Wäntig discuss with food chemist Prof. Thomas Henle from TU Dresden why many people today are milk-drinking mutants and whether we should eat like we did in the Stone Age.

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