(The originals are at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris.) The Neanderthal skull and jawbone (above, at left) belong to the so-called "Old Man" of La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a nearly complete skeleton ...

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The man is posed as if in the middle of decorating his body ... Listen to the tale of the first adult Neanderthal skull unearthed and what we've uncovered about our close relative in the past 160 ...

and further as lending support to his view that there is an overlap in skull pattern between Sinanthropus and Neanderthal man.

A massive, well-preserved skull discovered in China in the 1930s belongs to a new species called Homo longi, researchers report, but experts remain skeptical about the evidence. Amanda was an ...

From a flaky skull, found “as flat as ... animalistic stereotype of the Neanderthal first created in 1908 after the discovery of the “old man of La Chapelle”. On the basis of the old man ...

How do you tell? Our close evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, make look like us but there are distinct features in their skulls that set them apart. Palaeoanthropologist describes the main ...

If your recent ancestry lies outside of Africa, you can safely assume that you carry some Neanderthal DNA. Human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer discusses what this Neanderthal inheritance may ...

Note that the Neanderthal is painted plaster of paris, with the maroon spots indicating pieces missing from the original. The Cro Magnon skull is molded fiberglass. When you view the casts head-on ...