Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi

TL;DR: Eichinger et al. as discussed by the authors pointed out the utter implausibility of all attempts to explain continued lactase activity throughout life by reference to survival and reproductive advantages, and pointed out that if the Danes who are among the best lactose absorbers in the world, had acquired this trait through selection for fitness, they would have to have lived for thousands of years in such precarious nutritional conditions that drinking or not drinking fresh milk made a difference to their survival and reproduction, which is obviously absurd.

TL;DR: In many places in present-day India,"wild" and stray cattle are serious problem to farmers as mentioned in this paper, and the sacred cow concept contributes to a significant waste of beef and inefficiency in cattle breeding.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of analogies between South Indian food offerings and a verbal language are made. But the analogies with language appear at different levels and the contrasts in some cases are brought about by phoneme-like distinctions, and food offerings often present themselves in standard combinations composed of similar or contrasting items comparables to redundant and antithetical idiomatic expressions in language.

TL;DR: The main purpose of as discussed by the authors is to refute the rigid psychoanalytic determinism which holds that we cannot help attributing an exclusively male or female meaning to certain sexual symbols.

TL;DR: In this paper, an essai d'analyse du fonctionnement de l'humour verbal chez les Tamils du Tamilnadu (Inde) is presented.