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

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

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

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

Homo sapiens' entry into Europe might have hastened Neandertals' extinction. Neandertals may have had a greater penchant for ...

The new study revealed that the ancient jaw named SK 15 was originally unearthed in 1949 in a South African cave known as ...

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 ...

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

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...