What did Neanderthals look like? Overall, Neanderthals looked a lot like us. If you saw one from behind, you would likely see a human form, perhaps a little on the short side, but walking ...

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

Understanding the differences between Neanderthal and modern human faces sheds light on our own evolution.

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

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

“That could answer the question of whether these tools are the product of a modern human like you and me,” he asserted. “There have never been any Neanderthals found in East Asia, but could ...