Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

While this doesn’t resolve the matter of why our faces were shaped differently, it does answer the question of how, and highlights a unique process that shaped human faces into what they are today.

Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250312123847.htm. University College London.