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

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...

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

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

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...