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 ...

una serie di strumenti in pietra risalenti a 50.000-60.000 anni fa, sorprendentemente simili a quelli associati ai Neanderthal europei durante l’Età glaciale. Questi utensili, chiamati Quina ...

Thanks to modern technology (and based on skull remains), we can now reconstruct a likely approximation of the faces of our ancient Neanderthal ancestors. When we look at those faces, we see beings ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces and large noses, but the reason for this difference has eluded ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost 55,000 years. Their findings were published March 31 in Proceedings of the ...

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"Compared to Neanderthals and chimpanzees who continue growing longer, human facial growth stops earlier, around adolescence, resulting in a smaller adult face." The study is published in the ...

Quina is one of a number of stone tool styles associated with Neanderthals that archaeologists call Mousterian culture.The unprecedented discovery at Longtan had "significant implications ...