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.

  Science/Technology   Jun 9, 2026   0   3  Add to Reading List
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.
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