Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Researchers have identified five of the genes that shape a person's face, work that could help scientists better understand facial abnormalities like cleft palate and someday might even help ...

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

GWAS of human facial characteristics has been used to explain the genetic causes of different facial features among people. Genomic regions equipped with regulatory elements that are active ...

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Over time, the size of human faces became smaller, generations after they had bred with Neanderthals. But the actual shape of some facial features retained evidence of interbreeding with ...

The human face holds intriguing clues about how much a person has aged from the inside out, known as a person’s biological age, according to new research from scientists at Mass General Brigham.