A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now ...

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A newly reconstructed 1-million-year-old skull from central China may rewrite key chapters of human evolution. Researchers ...

Sloths may seem like quirky tree-dwellers today, but their past reveals a dynasty of giants that once roamed the Americas.

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

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

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

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

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

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

Until now, the earliest known evidence of Homo sapiens dates back 300,000 years in Africa. But the reclassification of Yunxian 2 suggests that three major human lineages – Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, ...