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

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

"We reveal how early humans -- known as hominins -- were ... at least 1.2 million years ago -- long before our species, Homo sapiens, emerged. Mercader, who studies human evolution, explains ...

Many researchers believe that it was early Homo sapiens that first adapted to life in the desert. However, a new study indicates that hominins may have adapted to desert life much earlier than ...

Homo sapiens, emerged. “Now extinct, Homo erectus existed more than an estimated 1.5 million years, marking them as a species survival success in the human evolution story when compared with our ...

There has been significant debate over when early hominins acquired the adaptability ... Previous research has frequently concluded that only Homo sapiens were able to adapt to such environments.

The term "hominin" refers to members of the human lineage that includes our own species, Homo sapiens, and its closest extinct relatives. Engraved prehistoric stone artifacts from the Manot (left ...

Scientists have long thought that only Homo sapiens, who first appeared around ... One of the world's most important prehistoric sites, Olduvai Gorge in modern-day Tanzania, was thought to home ...