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

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