Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

ScienceDaily
Sep 4, 2024, 2:15 pm539 ptsHot
Scientists have suspected that modern humans have more genes to digest starch than our hunter-gatherer ancestors, but the amylase locus of the genome is hard to study. Researchers have now developed new methods to isolate the multiple amylase genes and compare the locus to ancient genomes. They found that…

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