Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...

A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about the origins of our species. Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

Chinese scientists have analysed the skull, which dates back almost 150,000 years, and have come to a groundbreaking ...

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"Human evolution is a tree," said Prof. Xijun Ni of Fudan University, who led the research along with Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London. "This tree had many branches, and there ...