Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

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

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the ...

A study of a million-year-old skull from China has potentially rewritten the early chapter of human evolution.

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

A million-year-old skull discovered in China could rewrite the history of human evolution. A new analysis of the skull published in Science suggests that our species may have emerged half a million ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...

The skull was first unearthed in Hubei Province in 1990, but its crushed shape made classification difficult. Using digital scans and 3D reconstruction, researchers now say it belongs not to Homo ...