The study estimates that the longi clade split from the line that would eventually give rise to modern humans around 1.32 million years ago. That would make Yunxian 2 one of the group’s oldest known ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a ...

A fossilized skull discovered in central China and dated to roughly 1 million years old has upended the timeline of human evolution. In a study published in the journal Science on Thursday, ...

Knowledge about the first settlements of Homo sapiens in the interior of the Iberian Peninsula at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic has been significantly advanced with a new study led by Edgar ...

In 1990, a farmer in central China stumbled on a skull so battered it looked more like a pancake than a fossil. For decades, scientists squinted at the flattened bones of “Yunxian 2,” guessing it ...

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

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...