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 ...

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

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

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

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Lehigh Valley lovers of cheddar, smoked gouda and Cooper sharp American are flocking to a new family-run business, featuring a menu chock-full of cheese-packed creations ...

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 ...

At Lobby 385, where Kalel put Niehls Manzon, one of his many mentees over the years, as head chef, you can eat as you are, like a Neanderthal or a sophisticate or both. The choice, ultimately, is ...

One way of supporting that "linebacker" physique was to eat lots of meat, which also increased the amount of body heat Neanderthals produced, Ocobock said. Neanderthals also could keep warm by ...

About 37,000 years ago, Neanderthals clustered in small groups ... They may have gone about their daily life: Crafting stone tools, eating birds and mushrooms, engraving symbols on rocks, and ...