The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human ... face shape. In view of these ...

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 ...

Among other contrasts, Neanderthal fossils show that our faces developed strikingly different shapes: modern human faces are generally smaller and have more delicate features. The reason for this ...