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

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right ... identified a unique developmental pattern seen exclusively in Homo sapiens.” “Microscopically, this is reflected in reduced ...

In a study published Monday (March 24) in the Journal of Human Evolution, Schuh and colleagues analyzed the midface region of 174 skulls of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and chimpanzees. By including ...

Staring into the twinkling eyes in the weathered features of the Neanderthal ... from a male Homo sapiens skeleton from Paviland in Wales (the famous 'Red Lady' who wasn't a lady) and, since that is a ...

The best-known Neanderthals lived between about 130,000 and 40,000 years ago, after which all physical evidence of them vanishes. Female Homo neanderthalensis skull discovered at Tabun Cave at Mount ...

Thanks to modern technology (and based on skull ... Neanderthals frequently used their front teeth as tools, which could have shaped their face to better accommodate the increased demand on their jaws ...

The Manot skull fragment, which lacks a brow ridge and jaw, has distinctly Homo sapien features, but also hints of Neanderthal characteristics. The authors were careful not to over-interpret their ...