Scientists have discovered an ancient skull in China, like no other they've seen before. The 300,000-year-old child skull was ...

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

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

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

To determine where Yunxian 2 belongs, researchers compared its shape with more than 170 other modern and fossil human skulls. Using geometric morphometrics, which maps thousands of shape differences ...

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

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.” ...

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 ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

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

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

A new Simon Fraser University-led study reveals interbreeding between humans and their ancient cousins, Neanderthals, as the likely origin of a neurological condition estimated to impact up to one per ...