Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Scientists have reexamined a badly crushed skull discovered back in 1990 in Hubei Province, China — known as Yunxian 2 — and ...

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

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

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

A digitally reconstructed skull discovered in China has scientists questioning long-held beliefs about the timeline of human ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

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Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...