The First FarmersEconomy & Trade Dairying c. 7,000 BCENotable Milk residue in Anatolian pots shows early dairy use; lactose tolerance later spreads by natural selection. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Sheep and goats domesticated → Cattle domesticated → Dairying Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesBookMark KurlanskyMilk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeorigins of dairying lactase persistence ↗Editor's pick