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

Was blood a factor in the demise of the Neanderthals? New research is showing that Homo sapiens underwent huge changes in ...

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

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 ...

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

"Neanderthals have an Rh blood group that is very rare in modern humans ... the team found in the Denisovans or the early Homo sapiens in their study. "For any case of inbreeding of a Neanderthal ...

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 ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

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 ...

"Neanderthals have an Rh blood group that is very rare in modern humans," study lead ... not compatible with the variants the team found in the Denisovans or the early Homo sapiens in their study.