The origins of why we love carbs predate agriculture and maybe even our split from Neanderthals. New study finds the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago, seeding the genetic variation that shapes our modern diet.
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Why do we love carbs? The origins predate agriculture and maybe even our split from Neanderthals
Study co-led by UB finds the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago, seeding the genetic variation that shapes our modern diet.
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DNA Reveals When Humans And Neanderthals Became One |A new genetic analysis of the earliest known modern human remains found in Germany and the Czech Republic suggests emigrant Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis mingled between 45,000 and 49,000 years ago - more recently than previous estimates.
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DNA Reveals When Humans And Neanderthals Became One
Changing the fate of humanity.
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