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    Potatoes Didn’t Just Feed Ancient Indigenous Communities in the Andes—the Tasty Tubers Also Reshaped People’s DNA

    • Latest articles | smithsonianmag.com
    • May 12, 2026
    • Science, Smithsonian

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    A new study finds that Indigenous Andeans living in what is now Peru have extra copies of a gene called AMY1, which helps the body digest starch

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