Modern humans and Neanderthals shared a common ancestor, lived side by side in parts of Eurasia, and even had children together, yet their faces ended up strikingly different. The contrast between our ...

From rigid brow ridges to expressive arches, your eyebrows tell a story of how human faces evolved to signal emotion, identity and social intent. We tend to forget that our eyebrows are even there.

Combining archaeological evidence with ancient DNA and data on past climates shows us how long and winding the story of human ...

The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early ...

Why do no two human faces look quite the same? Although we all follow the same biological blueprint, our features—the curve of a lip, the angle of a nose, the breadth of a jaw—diverge in endlessly ...

Although chickens and mice look nothing alike, they share the same genetic blueprint for buildings faces. So, what creates facial variety? A new study finds that signal sites (known as “developmental ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift—driven not by genes, but by culture. "Human evolution seems to be changing ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...