This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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 ...

Many people have a tiny slice of Neanderthal DNA, evidence of interbreeding between the species and ancient human ancestors. Two new studies suggest that interbreeding occurred during a limited period ...

The Zlatý kůň skull, found in a cave site in present-day Czechia. Its DNA showed similarities to bones found in a German cave, according to new research. Hidden in many people’s genetic codes is a ...

Researchers believe the reconstructed million-year-old skull belonged to the Homo longi species discovered in 2021 - Copyright EUREKALERT!/AFP/File CHUANG Zhao ...

BANGKOK — 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 on ...

Researchers believe a skull unearthed in 1990 suggests the emergence of the human species occurred 400,000 years earlier than previously believed The fossil was discovered in China’s Hubei Province ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...