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

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

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups ...

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

Did Homo sapiens and Neanderthals work together? History is rewritten by a finding that is 110,000 years old. There are grave ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

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

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

The research team determined many of the tools were crafted in the style known as Quina, which is typically regarded as an archaeological signature of Neanderthals, a species of ancient human.

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...