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

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 ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China has opened paths for new discoveries about human evolution.The new study suggests that Homo sapiens began to emerge at least half a million years earlier ...

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

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater lake ...