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 ...

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

Their study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, compared fossils from Neanderthals, chimpanzee skulls, and modern human skulls. They found that, besides Neanderthals and humans already ...

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

In a study published Monday (March 24) in the Journal of Human Evolution, Schuh and colleagues analyzed the midface region of 174 skulls of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and chimpanzees. By including ...

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

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

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 ...

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 ...