A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

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

A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

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

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over the start date of Homo sapiens.

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at least in part, due to changes in Earth’s magnetic field? Did Australopithecus ...

A 146,000-year-old skull recovered near Harbin, China, by scientists decades ago has now been found to belong to the Denisovans, an extinct relation to modern humans who lived in Siberia and East Asia ...

For the first time, a research team from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of ...