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

A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have been a contributing factor to the decline of Neanderthals. In their paper ...

For this research, the team sequenced the genes of three groups of hominids: Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens. Their goal was to study the antigens present on the surface of red blood cells, ...

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

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

Prior to this, species such as Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens lived for around 2.5 million years from hunting and gathering - from what nature provided. This ...

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

The idea that Neanderthals and some ancestral populations of Homo sapiens interbred has gained traction over the past two decades. However, this theory is primarily supported by statistical approaches ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans (Homo sapiens) migrating out of Africa interbred with Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) in the Middle East. As a consequence of this encounter ...