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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

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

A fossilized skull unearthed in central China may push back the emergence of Homo sapiens by at least half a million years, dramatically challenging ...

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, ...