A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

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

In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to ...

A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

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

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously thought. The skull, known as Yunxian 2, was discovered in Hubei Province ...

The findings suggest Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over 1 million years ago, much earlier than previously believed.

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the first large-brained humans. That's because it dated back about a million ...

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

A fossilized skull unearthed in central China may push back the emergence of Homo sapiens by at least half a million years, ...