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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Although DNA could not be extracted directly from the Penghu 1 fossil due to material degradation, scientists applied mass ...

A fossil jawbone found off Taiwan has been confirmed as Denisovan using ancient protein analysis, revealing they lived in ...

A fossil Pleistocene-age hominin jawbone discovered in Taiwan has now been identified as belonging to a Denisovan, according to a new paleoproteomic analysis of the remains. The findings provide ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors. Anthropologists have long wondered why this difference exists and what ...

A fossil Pleistocene-age hominin jawbone discovered in Taiwan has now been identified as belonging to a Denisovan, according to a new paleoproteomic ...