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

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

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 new analysis now indicates that ...

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

A crushed million-year-old skull found in China that has been digitally reconstructed reopens a debate in human evolution.

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years ...

Future research will expand to larger primate samples, investigate diet-wear links in the wild, and apply advanced imaging to see how lesions form. The aim is to refine how we interpret the past while ...

Led by paleoanthropologist Professor Chris Stringer from London’s Natural History Museum, the team originally believed the skull to be an earlier ancestor of humanity, named Homo erectus, because it ...

The skull's discovery indicates that our species may have emerged half a million years earlier than previously thought.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.