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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered, curiosity about these ancient hominins has surged. How did they ...

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

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 ...

as scientific advancements in gene mapping were made. And beyond such work, such proof, Bruno said, we might employ our natural intuition to suppose that like typical redheads, the Neanderthals ...

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 ...

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