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

The origin of modern humans’ long-standing love affair with carbs may predate our existence as a species, according to a ...

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

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

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

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

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

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For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

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Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did they wear clothes? Indirect evidence suggests that Neanderthals ...