Homo sapiens' entry into Europe might have hastened Neandertals' extinction. Neandertals may have had a greater penchant for ...

If Neanderthal women mated with Homo sapiens or Denisovan men, there was a high risk of newborns having neonatal hemolytic ...

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

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.

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

Learn more about how Homo erectus may have adapted to dryer, arid conditions before Homo sapiens.

Homo sapiens, emerged. “Now extinct, Homo erectus existed more than an estimated 1.5 million years, marking them as a species ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

Scientists have long thought that only Homo sapiens, who first appeared around ... which has played a key role in the understanding of human evolution, was actually a desert steppe, according ...