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

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 ...

In this feature, compare the skulls and jawbones of a Neanderthal and an early modern human and see if you can ferret out the many anatomical dissimiliarities that paleoanthropologists use to ...

The best-known Neanderthals lived between about 130,000 and 40,000 years ago, after which all physical evidence of them vanishes. Female Homo neanderthalensis skull discovered at Tabun Cave at Mount ...

In a study published Monday (March 24) in the Journal of Human Evolution, Schuh and colleagues analyzed the midface region of 174 skulls of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and chimpanzees. By including ...

The researchers estimate that the skulls are about 430,000 years old—the oldest specimens with Neanderthal features to be found thus far, according to Arsuaga. “We now have a reliable minimum age for ...

The early modern human and Neanderthal model heads before they were painted, sitting on a shelf alongside a skull cast in the Kennis brothers' studio These techniques include layering clay over a cast ...

“When you look at adult Neanderthal fossils, particularly the bones of the arms and skull, you see [evidence of] fractures,” says Erik Trinkaus, an anthropologist at WashingtonUniversity in St ...

Thanks to modern technology (and based on skull remains), we can now reconstruct a likely approximation of the faces of our ancient Neanderthal ancestors. When we look at those faces, we see beings ...

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