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

Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Understanding the differences between Neanderthal and modern human faces sheds light on our own evolution.

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation.

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...