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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Modern humans have much smaller and softer-looking faces compared to our ancient relatives like. But why is that? A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology offers some ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost ...

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

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...