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

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ relationship with coastlines.

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 ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Now, a new analysis of these skulls, known as Yunxian 1, 2, and 3, is challenging long-held beliefs about our origins, ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously ...

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...