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

ISTANBUL –The latest study reveals that the salivary amylase gene may have duplicated as early as 800,000 years ago, long ...

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.

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

New research traces the genetic underpinnings of the enzyme amylase, which helps humans digest starches and sugars ...

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