New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...
Until recently, it was thought that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals split off from their last common ancestor around 600,000 ...
A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely ...
A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...
A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...
Life demanded attention to every detail—tracking, hunting, crafting, and planning. These folks adapted naturally, relying on instincts honed over generations. Their existence wasn’t simple, yet they ...
When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...
Until now, the earliest known evidence of Homo sapiens dates back 300,000 years in Africa. But the reclassification of Yunxian 2 suggests that three major human lineages – Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, ...
A fossilized skull unearthed in central China may push back the emergence of Homo sapiens by at least half a million years, ...
Not much is known about the mysterious, prehistoric Châtelperronian people, but they did leave behind some tantalizing clues.
(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...