What made us settle on cow’s milk and chicken eggs as our standard milk/egg?

Question

I understand that people also eat quail eggs, goat milk or etc etc due to geography (?) – but at what point and why did many settle on chicken eggs and cow milk?

Thank you

ETA: WOOAAAAAAH a great deal of responses here. thank you!!!!

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Answer 1

There have been a lot of good answers so far. But I have not seen it mentioned that sheep and goat milk is naturally homogenized. that is the butter fat does not separate from the milk. Whereas cow milk does separate. This allows for the production of butter. One of the more valuable commodities in the ancient world was fat for cooking.