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

In the 1960s, scientists discovered that some people produced extra amylase in their saliva. But it has only been in the past ...

Uncover the secrets of Tam Pà Ling Cave, revealing early human presence and ancient environmental shifts in Southeast Asia.

Alfons and Adrie Kennis have devoted their lives to creating models of our ancient relatives – sometimes with controversial ...

They also provide vital context for understanding the evolution of the species that may very well have given rise to ... When ...

Light helps explains the evolution of our skin colour, why some of us have curly hair, and the size of our eyes. And light ...

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

During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died ...

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

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

Carbon dioxide’s role in warming early exoplanetary atmospheres is likely necessary to create a habitable zone. But it could ...