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Scientists reconstructed a 1.5 million-year-old face. What they saw complicates evolution.
The intersection of technology and anthropology is helping us answer questions about our origins, but it's also giving us ...
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Larger brain, smaller face: Human evolution took a different course than previously thought
A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in human evolution—brain growth and the reduction in the size of the face and ...
Understanding the differences between Neanderthal and modern human faces sheds light on our own evolution. Thanks to modern technology (and based on skull remains), we can now reconstruct a likely ...
In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains, which ...
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 ...
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