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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

A new ecological model suggests Neanderthals and modern humans interbred in the Zagros Mountains in what is now Iran before ...

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

They say their discovery points to the gene having originated in Neanderthal man ... through the generations and become so common among people in Britain. They concluded the mutation was older ...