A new study published in Scientific Reports finds that incompatibility between the blood groups of Neanderthals and modern humans may have contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals.

Scientists uncovered how ancient blood groups helped Homo sapiens as compared to Neanderthals in their survival and spread worldwide. Image:Le Moustier’s 1920s art reconstruction of Neanderthals.

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 ...

How different are we from Neanderthals? The answer is “not as much as we used to think”. Or, to put it another way, the more we learn about this group of archaic humans, the more similarities ...

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives. Neanderthals weren't the cave-dwelling, knuckle-dragging brutes ...

A group of researchers did just that, by analyzing genetic information from three groups of Early Man — most recently Neanderthal and Homo sapiens (earlier work also included Denisovans, an extinct ...

sapiens and 14 Neanderthals from Eurasia, dating between 120,000 and 20,000 years ago, to understand the genetics that coded for their blood groups. They were curious to see whether H. sapiens and ...

When modern humans journeyed out of Africa, a rapid evolution in their red blood cells may have helped them survive — but it may have also led to the eventual disappearance of Neanderthals ...

Human populations that left Africa evolved quickly whereas Neanderthals stayed the same, according to an analysis of blood group systems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Two distinct branches of the human family tree—modern humans and Neanderthals—crossed paths in a meeting that would forever change the genetic makeup of our species. The illuminated ...

How do you tell? Our close evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, make look like us but there are distinct features in their skulls that set them apart. Palaeoanthropologist describes the main ...

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