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

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

Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.

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

Research indicates that our capacity to process starches, crucial for consuming foods like bread, originated over 800,000 ...

The gene that kick off starch digestion potentially duplicated for the first time long before farming.

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

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, ...

Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, the researchers have uncovered a history of genetic intermingling that reveals a ...

It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

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

Throughout modern humans’ genetic makeup, approximately two percent of our DNA is inherited from Neanderthals. The inherited DNA has shaped various traits and susceptibilities, as disclosed by experts ...