Our human evolution expert Professor Chris Stringer, who has been studying Neanderthals and Homo sapiens for about 50 years, tackles the big question of whether we belong to the same species. Everyone ...

This is not surprising. Homo sapiens began in Africa but Neanderthals were Eurasian. Any miscegenation would have happened after sapiens left its homeland to embark on its conquest of the world.

Yet despite this closeness, Neanderthals' (Homo neanderthalensis) and Homo sapiens' lineages diverged ... shorter than post-World-War II Europeans, but identical or slightly taller than Europeans ...

The work by the team involved sequencing the genes of two types of early human relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, and comparing them with the sequences from the human ancestor, Homo sapiens.

It enabled information sharing, coordinated activities, and knowledge transfer, setting us apart from extinct hominids like Neanderthals ... to the emergence of Homo sapiens as the dominant ...

Researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille studied the genomes of several ancient individuals—Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Homo sapiens. The study reveals that Neanderthals possessed a ...

The Jebel Irhoud hominins apparently lived 350,000 years after Neanderthals and Homo sapiens last shared a common ancestor, long enough for the two lineages to develop some obvious differences.

"For any case of inbreeding of a Neanderthal female with a Homo sapiens or Denisova male, there is a high risk of hemolytic disease [abnormal breakdown of red blood cell] of the newborn ...

A multidisciplinary team published an analysis of the dazzle camouflage patterns deployed on ships during World War 1 ... argument about whether Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were different ...