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 ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 120,000 years ago, ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a million years, according to a new study that’s turning heads across the ...