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 ...

The finding, published in Science, indicated that the evolutionary split between modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans may have occurred much earlier than previously thought. “This changes a lot ...

A skull unearthed in China, known as Yunxian 2, could reshape our understanding of human origins. The roughly million-year-old fossil was long classified as Homo erectus, but new analysis suggests it ...