Bioarcheologists can use this disparity to estimate and/or determine the sex of human skeletal remains ... were some of the small bones (phalanges) of the hands and feet that make up the ends ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the ...

But with humans, it’s all going on under the skin. The human skeleton is made up of more than 200 bones that give protection and support and allow the body to move. The skeleton gives the body ...

The skeleton had mostly human-like features, but it also had the body proportions, jawbone and pitted occipital bone at the back of the skull that were characteristic of Neanderthals. At the time ...

Decades after its initial discovery, the skeleton of a prehistoric child who possessed both human and Neanderthal attributes has now been directly dated. Archaeologists have confirmed that the ...