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Neanderthals Continued to Grow into Adulthood - Even Their Faces
The exact mechanisms behind the differences in facial features between Neanderthals and modern humans are still not fully ...
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Did early humans and Neanderthals know they were different species? Perhaps, here's how
Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...
Neanderthal Faces Were Bigger Than Ours. Turns Out We’re the Weirdos
By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...
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This Is Why Human Faces Look So Different From Neanderthals
Using skulls of 128 modern humans from around ... understand how species-specific traits emerged throughout human evolution”, says Schuh. The researchers wondered what would happen if a Neanderthal ...
Why modern humans have smaller faces than Neanderthals and chimpanzees
The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have smaller faces that stop growing sometime during adolescence. "Earlier growth ...
Scientists Reveal Why the Human Face Is Smaller Than a Neanderthal’s
Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...
Archaeologists unearthed a cache of stone tools. Neanderthals may have made them, study finds
Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...
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Why modern humans have smaller faces than Neanderthals and chimpanzees
In a study published Monday (March 24) in the Journal of Human Evolution, Schuh and colleagues analyzed the midface region of 174 skulls of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and chimpanzees. By including ...