Our love of chips and bread stretches back 800,000 years to our cavemen ancestors, study suggests; Research finds both Neanderthals and Denisovans had variants of AMY1 gene needed to process starchy food

Byline: Joe Pinkstone, Science Correspondent Humanity's love of carbohydrates started 800,000 years ago when cavemen developed genes to break down starchy food, a study has found. The genes underpinning the [...]