A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The ...

In 1990, a farmer in central China stumbled on a skull so battered it looked more like a pancake than a fossil. For decades, ...

An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

A new study claims that Yunxian-2, a human skull found decades ago in China, suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought. It also ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

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

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.