Study co-led by UB finds the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago, seeding ...

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks ...

OUR love of chips, bread and cakes holds millions of us back from a slim waist and perfect health – and it dates back ...

OUR love of fish and chips goes back almost a million years, a study reveals. Neanderthals and cavemen had the same gene that ...

Neanderthals might have lived as ‘different human form’ instead of separate species, scientists say - ‘We demonstrate that ...

Humanity’s love of carbohydrates started 800,000 years ago when cavemen developed genes to break down starchy food, a study ...

New research examines how early humans evolved to eat carbohydrates by studying the duplication of a certain gene that helped ...

However, food remains preserved in the calculus (hardened tartar) around their teeth show that the Neanderthal diet also included various plants, either collected directly or from eating the stomach ...

Analyzing the genomes of 68 ancient humans, including a 45,000-year-old sample from Siberia, the researchers found that ...

Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did they wear clothes? Indirect evidence suggests that Neanderthals ...

In some cases, individuals with a mainly based diet of meat show a high number of striations due to exogenous grit adhered to dental surfaces. The aim of this study is the examination of Neanderthal ...

Your support makes all the difference. A comet that was last viewed by the Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago could be seen tonight, with astronomers calling it the “comet of the ...