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

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

The origin of modern humans’ long-standing love affair with carbs may predate our existence as a species, according to a new ...

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

That study, in the journal Nature, suggested that humans acquired more copies of amylase genes with the arrival of ...

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

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

Analyzing the genomes of 68 ancient humans, including a 45,000-year-old sample from Siberia, the researchers found that ...

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 ...