Potato 'fuel of human evolution'
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Man's ability to digest starchy foods like the potato may explain our success on the planet, genetic work suggests.
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NEW YORK  - People living in societies that rely heavily on starch for nutrition have evolved to digest these foods more effectively, research suggests.
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Evo-devo researchers are finding that development appears to have been one of the major forces shaping the history of life on earth.
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By Marni Pyke  mpyke@@dailyherald.com  About this series "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors," somebody once said, "we borrow it from our children." We didn't always think that way, of course.
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A provocative study asks whether religion is a product of evol ution. Inside a quest for the roots of faith
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Can food-poisoning bacteria E. coli make chips better than humans? Start-up says yes, but primordial soup will take time to steep.
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NEW YORK A new study shows that genes from genetically engineered grass can spread much farther than previously known, a finding that raises questions about the straying of other plants altered through biotechnology.
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Scientists have found a way to use the cotton plant, long a source of fiber for clothing but inedible by humans, to feed potentially half a billion people a year.
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Who says food fads can't last? Thousands of years before the advent of Tex-Mex, ancient Americans were spicing up stew with red hot chili peppers. New fossil evidence shows prehistoric people from southern Peru up to the Bahamas were cultivating varieties of chilies millennia before Columbus' arrival brought the spice to world cuisine.
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The complexity of life took    billions of years to push and stretch and reshape the biological niche that    is Earth. It would seem prudent Â if one had the means Â to save some portion    of the blueprints of this majesty, so that the process would not have to start    over from scratch in the event of a global cataclysm.
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Scientists have found a way to boost the protein, zinc and iron content in wheat, an achievement that could help bring more nutritious food to many millions of people worldwide.
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Unraveling the genetic map of diatoms -- microscopic sea creatures -- could pay big dividends in defending the world's ecological systems. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Potatoes, known to help bowel health, may also have a beneficial effect on the whole immune system, according to Spanish researchers.
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BERLIN, May 21 (IPS) - New scientific evidence confirms that human action,  such as carbon emissions causing global  warming, and  industrial-scale search for food, is decimating biodiversity -  and, in some  cases, is driving threatened species to evolve and  adapt at unexpected speed to new living  conditions.
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NEW YORK Oct 22, 2004 - In a blow to human vanity, researchers now say that people have about the same number of genes as a small flowering plant or a tiny worm.
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Using plants to feed our fuel needs may be a great idea, and the biofuel goldrush could be a moneyspinner for several poor countries, but some experts warn people may go hungry as food prices rise.
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Australian scientists have used two recently discovered genes from an ancient wheat variety to develop a new way to breed salt-tolerant wheat.