Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

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

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad ...

When they lived: 400,000 to 34,000 years ago Where they lived: Western Eurasia, from Wales to Siberia to modern-day Israel. What they ate: Meat, from elephants to mussels.Some also ate mushrooms ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Neanderthals and modern humans overlapped and shared ideas for about 50,000 years in what is now ...

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

A team’s investigation of ancient human burials in Israel’s Tinshemet Cave has revealed evidence that Homo sapiens and our nearest cousins, the Neanderthals, intermingled in ancient times ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human ... mosaic of Neanderthal and anatomically modern human features argued to reflect ...

For example, the child’s lower limbs were much shorter than those of a modern human, and more resembled a Neanderthal. The skull, however, almost fully mirrored a Homo sapien, particularly the ...

present-day humans exhibit significantly higher levels of bone resorption." The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans ...

Prior work suggested that during the mid-Middle Paleolithic (80,000 to 130,000 years ago), the southern Levant was home to at least three different groups of Homo: modern humans, Neanderthals and ...