“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

For the first time, we now have a glimpse of what Lucy — one of the most famous ancestors of modern humans — might have ...

New data from the World Health Organization reveals that many governments’ public funding of health care falls short of what ...

Thailand has some of the world’s strictest lese majeste laws, and criticizing the king, queen, or heir apparent can lead to a ...

While the work is often attributed solely to sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd, she led a team of artists to create these realistic ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...