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

To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities ...

Within the genus Homo, Linnaeus divided humankind into four subspecies. At the top of the heap was Homo sapiens europaeus — European man — and at the bottom Homo sapiens afer — African man.

an extinct human subspecies that died out 40,000 years ago. In 2022, groundbreaking new analysis by researchers at Binghamton University in New York suggested that the frequently-studied bone might ...

Ever since Charles Darwin detailed the mechanism of evolution by means of natural selection in 1859, scientists have had a ...

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to Sapiens SaaS solutions to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

They also had bigger brains than earlier species, though not quite as large as the brains of today’s humans, Homo sapiens. H. erectus persisted for more than 1.5 million years before going ...

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 ...

An extremely large brain that’s bigger than that of our species, Homo sapiens, the only surviving hominin. The feature is reflected in the proposed name for the species, revealed by Bae and Wu ...