The Milk Paradox | Christina Warinner

A presentation from 2023–2024 Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor Christina Warinner

Christina Warinner is the Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor at Radcliffe and a John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her research group focuses on analysis of ancient DNA and proteins in order to reconstruct the human past. She has conducted groundbreaking studies on the evolution and changing ecology of the human microbiome—including publishing the oldest oral microbiome to date, from a 100,000-year-old Neanderthal—and published extensively on prehistoric migrations, the origins and spread of dairy pastoralism, and the biodiversity of the human gut microbiome.

During her fellowship, Warinner is exploring the phenomenon of lactose intolerance, its history of scientific study, and its unexpected ethnographic and archaeological paradoxes. She will seek to explain humanity’s complicated relationship with milk, from the ancient Near East and the steppes of Mongolia to supermarket shelves. Find out more at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/peo....

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