A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Alejandra Pascual-Garrido, Research Affiliate at the School of ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces ...

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad ...

Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee ...

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savannah habitats. Some of the ...

New insights have emerged into how the human brain develops. Two genes that are unique to humans work together to influence ...

Researchers have widely accepted that what sets humans apart from nonhuman primates are prefrontal cortex–driven behaviors ...

In a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee brains, researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...