Gurche then overlaid muscle on to the face by following markings on the skull left behind from chewing, revealing the first ...

This Homo sapiens skull found in Tam Pa Ling Cave by Demeter’s team in 2010 is at least 46,000 years old. Photograph by Justin Jin A molar uncovered by Suzzoni belongs to the elusive hominins ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

Located in the Zagros mountains in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, Shanidar Cave served as an important place for ...

There were also differences in the development of the brain. At birth, Neandertals and Homo sapiens still have brains of about the same size and elongated skulls. While in modern humans the typical ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to ...

The skull showed a mix of primitive and modern ... advanced technical skills and were on the evolutionary path toward Homo sapiens. The site, only the second in China after Zhoukoudian to yield ...

A skull fossil unearthed in 2015 is one of the ... They were very intelligent, and had evolved towards the stage of Homo sapiens, according to Wu. "The Hualongdong humans were the earliest ancient ...

Homo sapiens evolved through a series of significant ... 24 of which are associated with brain functions and skull morphology. These genetic changes emerged soon after the divergence and are ...