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That schism between milk-drinkers and the rest – actually a series of independent genetic mutations – appears to have occurred about 10,000 years ago, around the time humans were domesticating farm animals.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2019

By around 8500 BCE, societies in all seven areas of settlement were domesticating and cultivating plants.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Away on the steppes of eastern Asia various Mongolian tribes, the Hunnish peoples, were domesticating the horse and developing a very wide sweeping habit of seasonal movement between their summer and winter camping places.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)