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

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

Neanderthals might have lived as ‘different human form’ instead of separate species, scientists say - ‘We demonstrate that ...

Research shows some African populations have almost no Neanderthal DNA, while those from European or Asian backgrounds have 1 ...

The conclusions are tentative, but it’s possible our closest relatives relied too much on the advantage gravity gave them.

That study, in the journal Nature, suggested that humans acquired more copies of amylase genes with the arrival of ...

Some years ago, when the topic of the prehistory of the Armenian highlands came up, the first things that would come to mind ...

The origin of modern humans’ long-standing love affair with carbs may predate our existence as a species, according to a new ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

Around 37,000 years ago, the massive eruption of Italy's Phlegraean Fields disrupted ecosystems across the Mediterranean, ...

OUR love of chips, bread and cakes holds millions of us back from a slim waist and perfect health – and it dates back ...

For this video, I'll be making the world's first real diamond water. To do this, I'll be burning diamonds, which are nearly ...