On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 09:08  PM, Kylix _ wrote:
>
> Well, their answer seems to be that those who adapted
> were the ones who where forced by necessity to include it
> (dairy, alcohol) as a major part of their diet.

Yeah, starvation of 90% of the population with the survivors being
those who could subsist on whatever was there, barely edible or not.
Accounts for the middle easterners having more ability to handle wheat,
all those who couldn't died off a long time ago.