Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar. Just a few decades ago, most people pictured these ancient humans as brutish ...

The Neanderthal is also shown with body decoration ... people would look like around the part of the face where the flesh is thin, when you know the skull shape. An example would be the bridge of the ...

Measurement of our braincase and pelvic shape can reliably separate a modern human from a Neanderthal – their fossils exhibit a longer, lower skull and a wider pelvis. Even the three tiny bones of our ...

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 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 ...

Which helps explain why, to fathom how our fates diverged, he recently scrutinized Neanderthals’ bodies instead of their skulls. While humans have barrel-shaped chests and narrow pelvises ...

Neanderthals, modern humans’ closest evolutionary relatives, have been extinct for thousands of years. But due to interbreeding between the two groups around 55,000 years ago, remnants of our ...