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

Research indicates that our capacity to process starches, crucial for consuming foods like bread, originated over 800,000 ...

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

LSU anthropology professor attended a conference in Croatia, where she was invited to present her research on human ancestors ...

The acclaimed writer's new book is as erudite as its predecessors, but it’s less self-conscious — funnier and freer.

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

In this tricky comic thriller, a female American secret agent infiltrates a rural French commune of environmental terrorists ...

The gene that kick off starch digestion potentially duplicated for the first time long before farming.

In all, people found the Americas at least seven different times. For at least six of those, it wasn’t so new after all. The ...

There are as many implementations of democracy as there are countries and groups professing to be “democratic”. The appalling ...

A comet that was last viewed by the Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago could be seen tonight, with astrologists ...