Kefir Culture and Improved Survival

• Dairy pastoralism sustained eastern Eurasian steppe populations for 5,000 years.

  • 2020-03-02
  • Observational
  • Nature ecology & evolution 4(3)
  • • Shevan Wilkin
    • Alicia Ventresca Miller
    • William T T Taylor
    • Bryan K Miller
    • Richard W Hagan
    • Madeleine Bleasdale
    • Ashley Scott
    • Sumiya Gankhuyg
    • Abigail Ramsøe
    • S Uliziibayar
    • Christian Trachsel
    • Paolo Nanni
    • Jonas Grossmann
    • Ludovic Orlando
    • Mark Horton
    • Philipp W Stockhammer
    • Erdene Myagmar
    • Nicole Boivin
    • Christina Warinner
    • Jessica Hendy

  • PubMed: 32127685
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1120-y

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Survival

  • Low evidence

  Dairy pastoralism is integral to contemporary and past lifeways on the eastern Eurasian steppe, facilitating survival in agriculturally challenging environments.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large