Your love for carbs like bread and pasta might be due to ancient DNA, according to new research. The study suggests that humans may have developed the ability to start digesting these foods in the mouth long before they started farming, possibly even before the split from Neanderthals. The research discovered that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated over 800,000 years ago, paving the way for the genetic change that influences our diets today. > Duplication is a type

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