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

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

A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The million-year-old specimen, named Yunxian 2, may push the emergence of Homo sapiens back ...

The discovery of a million-year-old skull in China has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of human evolution. Researchers claim that this remarkable find suggests that Homo sapiens may ...

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

According to Prof. Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum, this discovery could mean that million-year-old fossils of Homo sapiens may still exist undiscovered, waiting to be found. The ...

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 ...

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

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Cumulative culture -- the accumulation of technological modifications and improvements over generations -- allowed humans to adapt to a diversity of environments and challenges. But, it is unclear ...