The early modern skull and jawbone (above, at right) come from Cro-Magnon I, one of several individuals whose remains turned up in a rockshelter in the Dordogne in 1868. The Neanderthal is 47,000 ...

Two of these extinct beings—Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon people—are pretty close ... muscular than the later Homo sapiens, and their skulls were flatter, with broad noses and pronounced brow ...

Skulls: - Left: Amud 1, Neanderthal, 55.000 years ago, ~1750 cm³ - Middle: Cro Magnon, Homo sapiens, 32.000 years ago, ~1570 cm³ - Right: Atapuerca 5, Middle ...

The Cro Magnon skull is molded fiberglass. When you view the casts head-on, the Neanderthal may appear disproportionately larger. Neanderthals did have larger faces than early moderns, but the ...