Eating potatoes reshaped the DNA of Indigenous Andeans

Now a dietary staple around the world, the nutritious potato was first domesticated by the Indigenous peoples of the Andes around 10,000 years ago. It turns out that spuds played such a central role in their diets that their bodies adapted to process the versatile tuber more efficiently. Today, their ancestors have the highest number of genes linked to starch digestion in the world.  Starchy superpowerA study published in the journal Nature Communications, analyzed levels of the AMY1 g