When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

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

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

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

A study quantifies for the first time the speed at which ape species have evolved, showing that the 'sapiens' skull and face ...

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

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance.

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

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