A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the first large-brained humans. That's because it dated back about a million ...

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

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

A crushed million-year-old skull found in China that has been digitally reconstructed reopens a debate in human evolution.

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

Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to ...

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

A human skull believed to be older than a million could alter our understanding of human evolution. Leading scientists have made a eureka breakthrough after analysing an ancient skull, known as ...

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 ...

Dhaka, Sept. 28 -- year-old human skull discovered in China may push back the origin of modern humans by at least half a million years, according to a new study published in Science.