Human and Macaque Breast Milk Compared (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Human and Macaque Breast Milk Compared

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Human breast milk contains extra nutritional elements compared to that of rhesus macaque monkeys, UC Davis and Harvard researchers find. This may be because human infants have further to go in development after birth than our close relatives.

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California National Primate Research Center

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