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Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest ...

Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...

From a flaky skull, found “as flat as a pizza” on a cave floor in northern Iraq, the face of ... of the Neanderthal first created in 1908 after the discovery of the “old man of La Chapelle”.

As visitors wander among the fossils, tools and other artefacts in the gallery, two standout characters put a human face to the last phase of our epic evolutionary journey. Staring into the twinkling ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

If so, you're right on, though those are only the most obvious differences between your face ... The Neanderthal skull and jawbone (above, at left) belong to the so-called "Old Man" of La Chapelle ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone ... is formed by the intersection of a large flake scar on each face. Instead of being pointed, cleavers have a blunt, but sharp ...

C. G. Seligman, in the chair, a paper by Sir Arthur Keith on “The Discovery of Neanderthal Man in Malta, with an account of the Survey of the Cave in which the evidence was found (Ghar Dalam ...