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

A round face, narrow eyes, relatively full lips and a flat nose: Using 3D technology, scientists in south China's ...

Let us start with the brain. The brain is a physical organ, (like heart and liver), and is situated within the skull, that ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

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

Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...

The skull evolved for protection against blunt force. Modern acceleration and rotational forces expose the brain to new ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

The partial skull bears similarities to Homo erectus, but there are also some anatomical differences, said study co-author Rosa Huguet, an archaeologist at the Catalan Institute of Human ...

The partial skull bears many similarities to Homo erectus, but there are also some anatomical differences, said study co-author Rosa Huguet, an archaeologist at the Catalan Institute of Human ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered five burials in a cave belonging to an enigmatic human lineage that suggest this group shared aspects of its lifestyle, technology and burial customs with ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old.