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

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

A new study reveals how the duplication of the salivary amylase gene may not only have helped shape human adaptation to starchy foods, but may have occurred as far back as more than 800,000 years ago, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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A 2015 study about a thigh bone discovered at the Red Deer Cave deepened the mystery. It suggested the individual weighed ...

An analysis by Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, on the manual capabilities of early hominins reveals that some ...