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Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

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 new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

The findings suggest Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over 1 million years ago, much earlier than previously believed.

The FBI said Wednesday that remains discovered during last week’s grid search for fugitive father Travis Decker were reviewed and found to not be human. Officials recovered bones during their two-day ...