研究指出，尼安德特人在欧洲和西亚生存了数十万年，直到约40000年前才逐渐消失。尽管如此，他们与来自非洲的智人相遇并发生杂交的时间为43500年前。这一点对于理解我们现代人类基因库的构成至关重要。

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

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

Ever since Charles Darwin detailed the mechanism of evolution by means of natural selection in 1859, scientists have had a ...

中新网北京1月24日电 (记者 孙自法)施普林格·自然旗下开放获取学术期刊《科学报告》最新发表一篇遗传学研究论文称，智人 (Homo sapiens)在离开非洲后血型可能发生了适应性遗传变化。

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

according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first humans capable of living in such hostile terrain. The moment when the first members of the extended human family ...