Potatoes may have given Indigenous Andeans a digestive superpower

ScienceDaily
Aug 10, 2026, 7:21 am67 ptsTrending
The rise of the potato in the Andes appears to have left a lasting mark on human DNA. Indigenous Peruvians carry exceptionally high numbers of a starch-digestion gene, likely because people with more copies gained an evolutionary advantage once potatoes became a staple food. The change began thousands of years…

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