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

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now ...

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 ...

Not much is known about the mysterious, prehistoric Châtelperronian people, but they did leave behind some tantalizing clues.

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

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to researchers.

An ancient skull found in China has pushed back the timeline of human evolution by 400,000 years, revealing a new branch in our lineage.

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

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

Far from brutish cavemen, Neanderthals buried their dead, built shelters, made art, and cooked food. They even cared for their sick and elderly for years. Genetic evidence shows they interbred with ...

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