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

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

A new study shows that our ability to digest carbs long predates the agricultural revolution, and even Neanderthals had ...

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 ...

A new study has suggested that the ability to start digesting starchy foods in the mouth may have developed before the split ...

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

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.

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

Neanderthals have had a tough time of it. Early humans played a role in their extinction, but the story didn’t end there.

Nor is there genetic evidence that modern humans' diseases killed off the Neanderthals, though we do share many immune-related genes. For instance, we inherited Neanderthal genes that make us ...