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“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” ...

This reconstruction set the scene for understanding Neanderthals for decades ... who sculpted a modern human face with a recognizable sensibility and expressions. This drive towards historical ...

This reconstruction set the scene for understanding Neanderthals for decades ... who sculpted a modern human face with a recognisable sensibility and expressions. This drive towards historical ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In humans, facial growth slows down during childhood and stops after ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman's face, based on a skull unearthed in Shanidar cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. The skull belonged to a woman who died around 75,000 years ago and was crushed to bits.

Prof Chris Stringer, human evolution expert at the Museum, was happy to inform the creation of the reconstruction. 'The models are based on the very best scientific evidence we could put together.

“Compared to Neanderthals and chimpanzees who continue growing longer, human facial growth stops earlier, around adolescence, resulting in a smaller adult face.” Schuh is the study’s first autho ...

Palaeo-anthropologist Dr Emma Pomeroy describes the main features of Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal skull from a female who died 75,000 years ago in what is now Iraqi Kurdistan. Read more: Face of ...