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 ...

Now, researchers have determined that human faces grow slowly and stop growing during early adolescence, whereas Neanderthals' faces kept growing into early adulthood. "These two human species ...

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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 ...

While the development of cooking methods, which eased the strain on our chewing apparatus, could account for a gradual reduction in facial features, some researchers add that the genetic variation in ...