The discovery of Yunxian 2 reveals early humans may have coexisted with Neanderthals for nearly 800,000 years, challenging ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Fossil bite mark analysis with AI shows early humans were prey for leopards, reshaping what we know about human evolution.

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 ...

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

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

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.