ISTANBUL –The latest study reveals that the salivary amylase gene may have duplicated as early as 800,000 years ago, long ...

Genes that help humans digest carbohydrates could have started evolving more than 800,000 years ago, long before the advent ...

The study uncovered that Neanderthals and Denisovans, our close extinct relatives, also exhibited amylase gene duplications.

Such a discovery could broaden our understanding of human evolution and the interactions between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. However, at this stage, these revelations raise more questions than ...

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ...

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

Folks who struggle to reduce their carb intake might be able to blame ancient DNA still lurking in humans, a new study ...

Spears work better when thrown from a height, but a surprising study finds the same does not apply to weapons launched from ...

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

LSU anthropology professor attended a conference in Croatia, where she was invited to present her research on human ancestors ...

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