A prehistoric human skull and fossils found in the sea could reveal the secrets of an ancient lost land teeming with venomous ...

Species whose brains grew over time include Australopithecus afarensis ... Meanwhile some scientists have proposed that human skulls got smaller as a consequence of self-domestication, based ...

They focused on standard skull measurements as a control to ... the influence of Neanderthal interbreeding in human populations over time. Neanderthals were just bigger than humans.

Now an exploratory study that assessed the facial structure of prehistoric skulls is offering new ... of Neandertal interbreeding in human populations over time. Neandertals were just bigger ...

By Kwame Anthony Appiah In the 1970s, as a middle-school science teacher, I bought a preserved human skull from an educational ... put on my mantel. At the time, this was entirely legal.