She looks pretty good for 75,000 years old. Particularly given that her skull was smashed into 200 pieces, possibly by a rockfall, before it was meticulously pieced together by scientists over the ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the heavy brow ridges and projecting midfaces of Neanderthals, even though we share a close evolutionary history. The split between our ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins. The contrast is not just cosmetic, it reflects deep differences in growth, ...

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

The origins of our species may lie much further back in time than we thought, and the same may be true of our extinct Neanderthal and Denisovan cousins. According to a new analysis of fossil remains, ...