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 ...

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

A team of paleoanthropologists and geneticists from Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, EFS, ADES has found evidence of what may have ...

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 ...

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 & ...

Somehow, H. erectus was able to adjust to this new landscape. The early humans visited water holes that popped up after it ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big ...