This is Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal woman whose face was recreated by archaeologists ... from the same common ancestor as Homo sapiens — modern humans — between 700,000 and 300,000 years ago ...

From a flaky skull, found “as flat as a pizza” on a cave floor in northern Iraq, the face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman named ... and indicated how far modern humans had come.

Current evidence from both fossils and DNA suggests that Neanderthal and modern human lineages separated at least ... It is generally regarded as belonging to an early Neanderthal woman. Her brain ...