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

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

The skull's discovery indicates that our species may have emerged half a million years earlier than previously thought.

A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The million-year-old specimen, named Yunxian 2, may push the emergence of Homo sapiens back ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than previously recognized. In a new study published Sept. 10 in the journal The ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is likely due to how humans evolved in the past. The paper is titled "A general ...