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Thanks to natural selection, Indigenous Andeans may digest potatoes better than anyone else in the world, study finds

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. Indigenous Andeans in Peru may be able to digest potatoes and other starches more easily than anyone in the world, a new study finds. Scientists discovered that Indigenous Andeans have more copies of the gene for saliva-based...