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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ancient DNA may be reason for your love of carbohydrates, study suggests - Researchers have found that the gene for ...

Individuals are "heterozygous" for a given gene if they inherit a different allele from each parent. In Neanderthals' small communities, which contained fewer than 20 adults in each group ...

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