Comparing Neanderthal and modern skulls, researchers from the University of York found that the brow ridge changed over time to make for more mobile eyebrows because they are fundamental to ...

For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

Neanderthals present a conundrum well known in biology: ... The skullcap, for example, sported a heavy brow ridge, hanging over the eyes like a boney pair of goggles. It was, at once, ...

Historically, our stories about Neanderthals have revealed a lot more about ourselves than about the group of early humans. ... and there was this idea that [a brow ridge] was more primitive.

The skeleton had many hallmark traits of a Neanderthal, including an oversize brow ridge, a flat cranial base and large eye orbits, according to eFossils.com, a site run by the University of Texas ...

The genomes of Neanderthals also show that almost 600 genes were expressed differently between our species and theirs, particularly those associated with the face and voice. Another prominent ...

Since Darwin, we have debated the relationship between Neanderthals and humans. Neanderthals sometimes seem like our defining Other, recognizably human yet not: Homo sapiens in a funhouse mirror that ...

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell ...

This is the first three-dimensional restoration of a Neanderthal skull fossil. The eight-year-old boy was buried in a ritual fashion when he died more than 30,000 years ago.

The face of a 75,000-year-old neanderthal woman was reconstructed by a team of scientists in England — revealing that the extinct race likely looked more like humans than researchers previously ...

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell ...