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

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

Study co-led by UB finds the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago, seeding ...

In this tricky comic thriller, a female American secret agent infiltrates a rural French commune of environmental terrorists ...

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

Ancient DNA might be the reason for your love of carbohydrates such as bread and chips, research suggests. Humans may have ...

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

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

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

OUR love of fish and chips goes back almost a million years, a study reveals. Neanderthals and cavemen had the same gene that ...

OUR love of chips, bread and cakes holds millions of us back from a slim waist and perfect health – and it dates back ...

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 ...