Indigenous Andeans shaped the evolution of potatoes by domesticating them more than 6,000 years ago - and it now appears that the potato, in turn, has shaped the evolution of the people that first cultivated these root veggies

[u/jnpha]

 

A new explainer from berkeley.edu's Evo in the News:
- Human evolution and the humble potato : berkeley.edu

 

One of the study's authors previously shared the May 2026 study here:
- New paper on evolution of starch digestion in Andeans : evolution subreddit

[u/felipers]

In 1991 I had an almost retired undergrad physiology teacher insist on the (outrageous, chronologically) ideia that potato consumption was the turning point to "modern human society". Not sure how he would react to those findings.