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We thank M. Zvelebil for ideas and discussion. A.B.-P. is supported by a grant from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia through the Graduate Programme in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology, and the work was partially supported by a Praxis project grant. G.L. and P.R.E. were funded by the European Union (Econogene). D.G.B. is a Science Foundation Ireland Investigator.

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  1. Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Génomique des Populations et Biodiversité, CNRS UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, B.P. 53, Grenoble, 38041 Cedex 9, France
    Albano Beja-Pereira, Gordon Luikart & Phillip R England
  2. Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO-UP) and Secção Autónoma de Ciências Agrárias, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, Vairão (VCD), 4485-661, Portugal
    Albano Beja-Pereira & Nuno Ferrand
  3. Department of Genetics, Smurfit Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, 2, Ireland
    Daniel G Bradley
  4. Institut für Tierzucht und Haustiergenetik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Ludwigstr. 21b, Gießen, 35390, Germany
    Oliver C Jann & Georg Erhardt
  5. Department of Biology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, 44100, Italy
    Giorgio Bertorelle
  6. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4ET, UK
    Andrew T Chamberlain
  7. CIISA/UISEE/DETSA, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Polo Universitário da Ajuda, Rua Prof. Cid dos Santos, Lisboa, 1300-477, Portugal
    Telmo P Nunes
  8. Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Thracian University, Agricultural Faculty, Stara Zagora, 6000, Bulgaria
    Stoitcho Metodiev
  9. Departamento de Zoologia/Antropologia da Faculdade de Ciências Praça Gomes Teixeira, Porto, 4099-002, Portugal
    Nuno Ferrand

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  1. Albano Beja-Pereira
  2. Gordon Luikart
  3. Phillip R England
  4. Daniel G Bradley
  5. Oliver C Jann
  6. Giorgio Bertorelle
  7. Andrew T Chamberlain
  8. Telmo P Nunes
  9. Stoitcho Metodiev
  10. Nuno Ferrand
  11. Georg Erhardt

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Beja-Pereira, A., Luikart, G., England, P. et al. Gene-culture coevolution between cattle milk protein genes and human lactase genes.Nat Genet 35, 311–313 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1263

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