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

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

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

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

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years ...

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 ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China has opened paths for new discoveries about human evolution.The new study suggests that Homo sapiens began to emerge at least half a million years earlier ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at least in part, due to changes in Earth’s magnetic field? Did Australopithecus ...

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