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

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

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

By examining DNA samples from many ancient humans, scientists can track when we began increasing our carbohydrate intake.

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 ...

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

Genes that help humans digest carbohydrates could have started evolving more than 800,000 years ago, long before the advent of farming, a new study has ...

The study uncovered that Neanderthals and Denisovans, our close extinct relatives, also exhibited amylase gene duplications.

Genes that help humans digest carbohydrates could have started evolving more than 800,000 years ago, long before the advent ...

Scientists have identified previously unreported genes which appear to play a key role in the muscle aging process. It is ...