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Thanks to natural selection, Indigenous Andeans may digest #potatoes better than anyone else in the world, study finds
After domesticating potatoes 10,000 years ago, the ancient people of the #Andes evolved to have more copies of a key #gene involved in digesting starch.
#NaturalSelection drove the surge in #amylase genes following the local domestication of potatoes around 10,000 years ago, according to the study published May 5 in the journal Nature Communications.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/americas/thanks-to-natural-selection-indigenous-andeans-may-digest-potatoes-better-than-anyone-else-in-the-world-study-finds