Now this ancient man – or least, his fossilised skull – is challenging the textbook timeline of human evolution, prompting ...

This is because the new analysis of the craniums also puts the Denisovans as the most closely related extinct human species ...

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

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

Now, a new analysis of these skulls, known as Yunxian 1, 2, and 3, is challenging long-held beliefs about our origins, ...

A 1 million-year-old skull found in China may challenge current theories of human evolution and the origins of Homo sapiens.

An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the ...

Learn more about the reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 cranium, and about what it might mean for the history of three human ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

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

The findings suggest Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over 1 million years ago, much earlier than previously believed.