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

Our human evolution expert Prof Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone on ...

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 ...

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

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

These studies suggest that genetic mixing was a protracted process that lasted for several generations. Scientists have not yet determined exactly the nature of the interactions between Homo sapiens ...

Our human ancestors fundamentally changed their eating behavior in the Neolithic period. This was when they began to cultivate cereals and domesticate wild animals.

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