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

Aylwyn Scally, a researcher in human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge, discusses an ancient skull that ...

The skull's discovery indicates that our species may have emerged half a million years earlier than previously thought.

Animal rock carvings discovery rewrites human history in the Middle East - Researchers have discovered life-size rock ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often ...

A new find in the Ayvalık region of western Turkey suggests that prehistoric humans somehow "walked" across what is now a deep body of water.

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

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 ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei at the Institute of ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics. The COVID-19 pandemic was, at its heart, a ...

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