Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Modern humans have much smaller and softer-looking faces compared to our ancient relatives like. But why is that? A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology offers some ...

Now, researchers have determined that human faces grow slowly and stop growing during early adolescence, whereas Neanderthals' faces kept growing into early adulthood. "These two human species ...

Homo antecessor showed us the oldest face of modern humanity. In 2007, in the Sima del Elefante (Pit of the Elephant), a site no more than 300 meters from the Gran Dolina, the oldest human in ...