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

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

A new study shows that our ability to digest carbs long predates the agricultural revolution, and even Neanderthals had ...

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

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

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

Research indicates that our capacity to process starches, crucial for consuming foods like bread, originated over 800,000 ...

Ancient DNA may be reason for your love of carbohydrates, study suggests - Researchers have found that the gene for ...

Research shows some African populations have almost no Neanderthal DNA, while those from European or Asian backgrounds have 1 ...

They say their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man, who lived in Europe for 260,000 years before the ancestors of modern man arrived from Africa about 40,000 years ago.

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