A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

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

A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The million-year-old specimen, named Yunxian 2, may push the emergence of Homo sapiens back ...

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

The discovery of a million-year-old skull in China has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of human evolution. Researchers claim that this remarkable find suggests that Homo sapiens may ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

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 ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than previously recognized. In a new study published Sept. 10 in the journal The ...