When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

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

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising ...

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

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

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...