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

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

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

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

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

The conclusions are tentative, but it’s possible our closest relatives relied too much on the advantage gravity gave them.

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

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 ...

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

Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, the researchers have uncovered a history of genetic intermingling that reveals a ...

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

A 2015 study about a thigh bone discovered at the Red Deer Cave deepened the mystery. It suggested the individual weighed ...