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.

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an anthropologist from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, noted, “Our findings suggest that while early North African ...

The reasons for the demise of the Neanderthals some 30 thousand years ago, only a few millennia after the first appearance of modern humans in Europe, remain controversial, and are a focus of ...

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CT scans of a Neanderthal skull (left ... researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, told Live Science. In a study published Monday (March 24) in the Journal ...