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

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

The evolutionary path leading to the rise of modern humans is full of twists and turns, and the latest surprise reveals that our species likely sprung forth from two ancient intermingling populations.

These bones, nicknamed Pink (in reference to Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon"), could belong to a little-known or even unknown human species, pushing the boundaries of our understanding ...

And that, he insists, is a sign of impending extinction. It would lead to isolated pockets of humans, already genetically much more homogenous than other species, each vulnerable to disaster and, ...

The first major discovery took place in the 1990s, when the remains of an unpublished human species, 'Homo antecessor', were dug up at the Gran Dolina site. "When the fossils of 'Homo antecessor ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage—a discovery ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage - a ...

In 2017, new finds from the Jebel Irhoud site in Morocco were published, indicating that our species—H. sapiens—appeared on the scene as early as 300,000 years ago. Spreading into Eurasia l00,000 ...

Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the slender-faced Homo antecessor, dating back around 850,000 years. But research published in the journal Nature "introduces a new ...

Until now, the oldest-known human species in Western Europe was the Homo antecessor. Experts have found Homo antecessor remains that are around 850,000 years old. The oldest human ancestor found ...