The Enigmatic Neanderthals Neanderthals are a fascinating subject of study, often depicted as cavemen in ancient tales. But ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For this research, the team sequenced the genes of three groups of hominids: Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens. Their goal was to study the antigens present on the surface of red blood cells, ...

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

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

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

When Homo neanderthalensis first came in contact with Homo sapiens around 50,000 years ago ... But, interbreeding would change the human genome, which likely continued until Neanderthals went extinct ...

Prior to this, species such as Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens lived for around 2.5 million years from hunting and gathering - from what nature provided. This ...