The world's first scientific facial reconstruction case based on the "Yunxian Man" skull fossils dating back approximately 1 ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

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 ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

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 ...

Research conducted at the Department of Biology, University of Padova, has identified critical genomic milestones in the ...

Understanding how early Homo sapiens ventured into Eurasia offers ... to mitochondrial DNA sequences found in a 43,000-year-old skull from the Czech Republic, suggesting interconnected populations ...

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 ...

23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be considered separate species. Amanda Heidt is a Utah-based ...