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

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

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

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

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

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

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, ...

A reanalysis of a one-million-year-old human skull found in China is challenging the established timeline of human evolution, and suggests a new ...