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 their blood groups after leaving Africa, between 70,000 and 45,000 years ago, ...

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

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

This jawbone has been discovered with other remains of Homo sapiens dating back some 300,000 years. This group displays physical features that are similar to both modern humans and Neanderthals.( ...

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

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 ...

"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.

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 ...