In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

These are the points at which diagnostic traits first appear in the fossil record. For this reason, these later dates are ...

A newly reconstructed 1-million-year-old skull from central China may rewrite key chapters of human evolution. Researchers ...

The skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province in 1990. However, the skull was badly deformed during fossilisation.

A newly analyzed ancient skull from China, dating between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, may significantly alter our understanding of human evolution's timeline.

A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the ...

The reanalysis further pushes back the divergence time of modern humans — Homo sapiens — whose ancestors are estimated to have lived in Africa around 500,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who lived between ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in Hubei province that was so badly deformed during fossilisation that ...

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 ...

The finding indicates that as early as 1 million years ago, human ancestors had already differentiated into multiple independently evolving groups. The timing and complexity of this differentiation ...