Scientists have reexamined a badly crushed skull discovered back in 1990 in Hubei Province, China — known as Yunxian 2 — and ...

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

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A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously ...

At Softbank's shareholder meeting, CEO Masayoshi Son forecast that artificial "superintelligence" could be available in roughly 10 years. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) The ...

Amna Nawaz: We often talk about human origins as the evolution of man, but what if we saw it as the evolution of woman? A new book argues for a better understanding of our beginnings, with critical ...

Human Evolution 140,000-year-old child's skull may have been part modern human, part Neanderthal — but not everyone is convinced Human Evolution 1 million-year-old skull from China holds clues to the ...