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This document summarizes the evolution of milk secretion and its origins. It discusses how milk originated as a glandular skin secretion in synapsids over 300 million years ago to moisturize eggs with parchment-like shells. Mammary glands likely evolved from apocrine glands associated with hair follicles. Various milk constituents evolved roles related to nutrition, such as caseins transporting nutrients and proteins incorporated into lipid droplets for energy transfer. By the late Triassic period over 200

Author

Francesco Maniscalco

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