Scientists have digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis potentially shakes up ...

A new study claims that Yunxian-2, a human skull found decades ago in China, suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began ...

An ancient skull found in China has pushed back the timeline of human evolution by 400,000 years, revealing a new branch in our lineage.

Humans have long viewed themselves as the pinnacle of evolution, labeling other species as “primitive” or using terms like ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

A newly reconstructed 1-million-year-old skull from central China may rewrite key chapters of human evolution. Researchers ...

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

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The reanalysis further pushes back the divergence time of modern humans — Homo sapiens — whose ancestors are estimated to have lived in Africa around 500,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who lived between ...

Rodents make up almost half of all mammals. A study looks at how the evolution of a tiny thumbnail may have propelled their ...

A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the ...