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

Unlike Neanderthals, human facial growth halts in adolescence—shrinking jaws and midfaces over time. This evolutionary shift ...

Research has determined Neanderthals at least had the bone structure consistent with the ability to hear at frequencies that ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Ongoing studies of Neanderthal skeletons unearthed in Iraq during the 1950s suggest the existence of a more complex social structure than ... up some unusual-looking bones. Subsequent study ...

a normal process in bone remodeling that helps the tissue retain its structure and strength. Related: 28,000-year-old Neanderthal-and-human 'Lapedo child' lived tens of thousands of years after ...

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right). © Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split ...

Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

Collagen obtained directly from at least a dozen Neanderthal bones from sites in France, Belgium, and Croatia reveal that Neanderthals were top-level carnivores who obtained most of their dietary ...