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

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

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

Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, the researchers have uncovered a history of genetic intermingling that reveals a ...

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

A DNA analysis concluded that the man was between ... Around 70,000 years ago this young Neanderthal man roamed an area known as Doggerland, off the coast of the Netherlands.

Folks who struggle to reduce their carb intake might be able to blame ancient DNA still lurking in humans, a new study ...

A 2015 study about a thigh bone discovered at the Red Deer Cave deepened the mystery. It suggested the individual weighed ...

William Mata2 minutes ago A comet not seen since Neanderthal times has made a spectacular ... every 80,000 years and made its last pass when humans were first venturing out of Africa.

A comet that was last visible from Earth when Neanderthals were alive could be spotted with the naked eye this weekend, scientists have said. Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has been called "the ...

A new study shows that our ability to digest carbs long predates the agricultural revolution, and even Neanderthals had ...