A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, suggesting she was a hybrid, according to a new study. However, not everyone ...

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, ...

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 ...

For more than a century, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of human evolution, examining fossil evidence to ...

A million-year-old skull, Yunxian 2, discovered in China, challenges the Africa-centric model of human evolution. Reconstructed digitally, it suggests large-brained humans, potentially Homo longi, ...

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

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