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

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

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 ...

Research has revealed that humans may have developed the ability to start digesting carbohydrates in the mouth long before ...

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

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

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 ...

Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.

New research traces the genetic underpinnings of the enzyme amylase, which helps humans digest starches and sugars ...