Was blood a factor in the demise of the Neanderthals? New research is showing that Homo sapiens underwent huge changes in ...

If Neanderthal women mated with Homo sapiens or Denisovan men, there was a high risk of newborns having neonatal hemolytic ...

The idea that Neanderthals and some ancestral populations of Homo sapiens interbred has gained traction over the past two ...

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

Some modern-day people have 2 percent Neanderthal DNA, according to Prof. Chris Stringer, a leading human evolution researcher at the British Natural History Museum. Over the past century and a half, ...

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

Journal of Human Evolution 55, 886-897 (2008). Currat, M. & Excoffier, L. Strong reproductive isolation between humans and Neanderthals inferred from observed patterns of introgression.

Neanderthal blood protein differences linked to health risks Rare RhD type incompatible with other hominid blood types Genetic incompatibilities may explain Neanderthal extinction ...

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 ...

New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...