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

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

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

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

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