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

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 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 ...

Palaeoanthropologist describes the main features of the female Shanidar Z Neanderthal skull. Palaeo-anthropologist Dr Emma Pomeroy describes the main features of Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal skull ...

Scientists have previously suggested Neanderthal DNA was gradually removed from modern human genomes during the last 45,000 years. But a new study, published last week in PNAS, reports that ...

CT scans of a Neanderthal skull (left) and a modern human skull ... Schuh and colleagues analyzed the midface region of 174 skulls of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and chimpanzees.