A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

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

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China has opened paths for new discoveries about human evolution.The new study suggests that Homo sapiens began to emerge at least half a million years earlier ...

According to Prof. Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum, this discovery could mean that million-year-old fossils of Homo sapiens may still exist undiscovered, waiting to be found. The ...

Until now, the earliest known evidence of Homo sapiens dates back 300,000 years in Africa. But the reclassification of Yunxian 2 suggests that three major human lineages – Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, ...