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 ...

Published in the journal Scientific Reports, the study compares the genes of the blood groups of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals to better understand our history as a species. Blood groups, such as ABO ...

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, ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...