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Scientists pinpoint the origins of humanity’s love of carbs | CNN

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Scientists traced the evolution of a gene that enables humans to digest starch more easily by breaking it down into simple sugars that our bodies can use for energy.

The study revealed these genes duplicated long before the advent of agriculture.

The number of AMY1 copies a person carries increased steeply in the past 4,000 years .

The study is “extremely impressive,” said Christina Warinner , John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and Anthropology at Harvard University .

“This shows the value in continuing to mine the genomes of our human ancestors for important medical and physiological records”.

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