Man’s ability to digest starchy foods like the potato may explain our success on the planet, genetic work suggests.
Compared with primates, humans have many more copies of a gene essential for breaking down calorie-rich starches, Nature Genetics reports.
And these extra calories may have been crucial for feeding the larger brains of humans, speculate the […]
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Starch ‘fuel of human evolution’
Posted by CheScientists look for undersea clues to evolution
British scientists are to embark on an unprecedented expedition to the mysterious undersea “islands” of the Southern Ocean, in a £3.2m expedition that will search for new species whose existence might explain how life in the seas evolved.
The islands form around volcanic vents and other fissures in the sea floor at depths of up to […]
Viking ship ‘buried beneath pub’
A 1,000-year-old Viking longship is thought to have been discovered under a pub car park on Merseyside.
The vessel is believed to lie beneath 6ft to 10ft (2m to 3m) of clay by the Railway Inn in Meols, Wirral, where Vikings are known to have settled.
Experts believe the ship could be one of Britain’s most significant […]
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