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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by goggles99 on Monday October 29, 2012 @03:51PM (#4714122)
WOW - I cannot believe the false premise this entire article is based on. This is Epigenetics, not mutation or evolution!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetics.html

The article itself says >Two hundred thousand years later, around 10,000 B.C., this began to change. A genetic mutation appeared, somewhere near modern-day Turkey, that jammed the lactase-production gene permanently in the β€œon” position.

This is NOT a genetic mutation. The gene was already there but not turned on past the toddler years. I searched this entire page of comments and no one knows or points this out?

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