A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- A new study of a 1-million-year-old human skull found in central China revealed a previously unknown branch of the human family tree, dramatically pushing back the ...

A digitally reconstructed skull discovered in China has scientists questioning long-held beliefs about the timeline of human ...

A reanalysis of a one-million-year-old human skull found in China is challenging the established timeline of human evolution, and suggests a new ...

Aylwyn Scally, a researcher in human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge, discusses an ancient skull that could rewrite the timeline of human evolution.

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

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

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

An ancient skull unearthed in China may push back the origins of our species by half a million years, challenging long-held beliefs about when—and with whom—early humans roamed the Earth, reports the ...

The story of our origin, as it was told in textbooks, has just been overturned by fossil evidence. The meticulous virtual reconstruction of a human skull found in China in 1990, known as Yunxian 2 and ...