Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins. The contrast is not just cosmetic, it reflects deep differences in growth, ...

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For hundreds of thousands of years, humans created art without realistic faces. Animals were rendered in stunning detail, yet human faces were almost entirely absent. The earliest known human face was ...

While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split from our last common ancestor between 650,000 and 500,000 years ago and evolved into distinct species. Among other contrasts, Neanderthal ...

I recently received a note from a dog trainer that I first met at a meeting of the International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP). She wrote, in part: "I was teaching a beginners dog ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces and large noses, but the reason for this difference has eluded ...