By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

Modern humans have much smaller and softer-looking faces compared to our ancient relatives like. But why is that? A new study ...

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”.

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman's face, based on a skull unearthed in Shanidar cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. The skull belonged to a woman who died around 75,000 years ago and was crushed to bits.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Compared to Neanderthals and chimpanzees who continue growing longer, human facial growth stops earlier, around adolescence, resulting in a smaller adult face." Tracking changes in facial size in ...