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

The study authors added that skulls found in Xuchang in central China’s Henan province also displayed some Neanderthal ...

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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 ...

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Neanderthal DNA strengthens the immune system and regulates inflammation Denisovan genes help with altitude adaptation and oxygen use Paleogenetics reveals that human evolution is more complex ...

“This population would later contribute about 80 percent of the genetic material of modern humans and also seems to have been the ancestral population from which Neanderthals and Denisovans diverged.” ...

While earlier research has already shown that Neanderthals and Denisovans -- two now-extinct human relatives -- interbred with Homo sapiens around 50,000 years ago, this new research suggests that ...

Modern humans and Neanderthals are classified as separate species. According to biologists, they shouldn’t have been able to breed. But they did. We know this because many of us have some ...

A turning point in their evolution was the development of larger brains, which in turn led to changes in the size and shape of their skulls. New research from the University of Chicago and ...