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

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

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

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected witness to Earth’s distant past: tiny iron oxide stones called ooids. These mineral snowballs lock away traces of ancient carbon, revealing that oceans between ...

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

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, ...

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

It’s not artificial intelligence, but actual intelligence. Living neurons can solve profound problems while being ‘one million times more energy efficient than silicon’, one researcher tells Anthony ...

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

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

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