Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

He has helped show that human groups—southern Africans ... Paabo now wants to re-create the entire DNA sequence of a Neanderthal and compare it with our own, looking for the reasons that ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

The comparison revealed that “the midfaces [the region between our eyes and lips] of Neanderthals are on average already larger at birth than those of modern humans and continue growing for a ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces and large noses, but the reason for this difference has eluded ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for many ...

Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan genes help with altitude adaptation and oxygen use Paleogenetics reveals that human evolution is more complex ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. CT scans of a Neanderthal skull (left) and a modern human skull ...