A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

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

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 suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

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

A million-year-old skull, Yunxian 2, discovered in China, challenges the Africa-centric model of human evolution.

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

A groundbreaking million-year-old skull discovered in China challenges established timelines of human evolution, suggesting ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

Led by paleoanthropologist Professor Chris Stringer from London’s Natural History Museum, the team originally believed the skull to be an earlier ancestor of humanity, named Homo erectus, because it ...

Researchers have identified a variant in the gene TBX1 as key in the development of the unique morphology at the base of the skull. TBX1 is present at higher levels in humans than in closely related ...

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