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

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right). © Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split ...

The exact mechanisms behind the differences in facial features between Neanderthals and modern humans are still not fully ...

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

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

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 ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

The study authors added that skulls found in Xuchang in central China's Henan province also displayed some Neanderthal features, which "might indicate that human interactions occurred between the ...