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From a flaky skull, found “as flat as a pizza” on a cave floor in northern Iraq, the face of ... of the Neanderthal first created in 1908 after the discovery of the “old man of La Chapelle”.

As visitors wander among the fossils, tools and other artefacts in the gallery, two standout characters put a human face to the last phase of our epic evolutionary journey. Staring into the twinkling ...

This reconstruction of a Neanderthal man’s features is based on the fossils ... extinction of taxa or species when their populations face demographic and genetic problems, or they may not ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone ... is formed by the intersection of a large flake scar on each face. Instead of being pointed, cleavers have a blunt, but sharp ...

If so, you're right on, though those are only the most obvious differences between your face ... The Neanderthal skull and jawbone (above, at left) belong to the so-called "Old Man" of La Chapelle ...