Scientists uncovered how ancient blood groups helped Homo sapiens as compared to Neanderthals in their survival and spread ...

Ancestors or Relics? Neanderthals have long fascinated scientists and the general public alike. Are they our distant ...

The Enigmatic Neanderthals Neanderthals are a fascinating subject of study, often depicted as cavemen in ancient tales. But ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood ...

Neanderthal blood types may have made them ill-equipped to deal with infectious diseases.

One of the great mysteries of human evolution is the intermediate step represented by the presence of Neanderthals for ...

Researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille studied the genomes of several ancient individuals—Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens. The study reveals that Neanderthals possessed a ...

The work by the team involved sequencing the genes of two types of early human relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, and comparing them with the sequences from the human ancestor, Homo sapiens.

There has been some incredible research into the role this DNA plays in modern human neurodevelopment, so here's an overview ...

When Homo neanderthalensis first came in contact with Homo sapiens around 50,000 years ago ... But, interbreeding would change the human genome, which likely continued until Neanderthals went extinct ...

A group of scientists has found clues in blood groups that explain how modern humans managed to survive and expand from ...