Research has revealed that humans may have developed the ability to start digesting carbohydrates in the mouth long before ...

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

A new study has suggested that the ability to start digesting starchy foods in the mouth may have developed before the split ...

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

If you've ever struggled to reduce your carb intake, ancient DNA might be to blame. It has long been known that humans carry ...

Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ...

That study, in the journal Nature, suggested that humans acquired more copies of amylase genes with the arrival of ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

Braving the cold weather required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and to know how to make fire. But did they wear clothes?

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 ...

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 ...