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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 ...

A 1 million-year-old skull found in China may challenge current theories of human evolution and the origins of Homo sapiens.

A new study of a 1-million-year-old human skull found in central China revealed a previously unknown branch of the human family ...

A human skull believed to be older than a million years could alter our understanding of human evolution. Leading scientists have made a eureka breakthrough after analysing an ancient skull, known as ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they understood about our origins. The fossil, named Yunxian 2, was extracted from ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.

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 newly reconstructed 1-million-year-old Chinese skull may hold surprising insights into human evolution, challenging long-held theories.