Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

and chimpanzees by comparing the skulls of 128 humans, 13 Neanderthals, and 33 chimpanzees. The comparison revealed that “the midfaces [the region between our eyes and lips] of Neanderthals are ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. CT scans of a Neanderthal skull (left) and a modern human skull ...

Neanderthals had a long, low skull (compared to the more globular skull of modern humans) with a characteristic prominent brow ridge above their eyes. Their face was also distinctive. The central part ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In humans, facial growth slows down during childhood and stops after ...

Their study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, compared fossils from Neanderthals, chimpanzee skulls, and modern human skulls. They found that, besides Neanderthals and humans already ...

In comparison, the Neanderthal's body ... The early modern human and Neanderthal model heads before they were painted, sitting on a shelf alongside a skull cast in the Kennis brothers' studio These ...

In this feature, compare the skulls and jawbones of a Neanderthal and an early modern human and see if you can ferret out the many anatomical dissimiliarities that paleoanthropologists use to ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal ... analyzed the midface region of 174 skulls of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and chimpanzees.