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

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

Scientists have reexamined a badly crushed skull discovered back in 1990 in Hubei Province, China — known as Yunxian 2 — and ...

A human skull believed to be older than a million years could alter our understanding of human evolution. Leading scientists have made a eureka breakthrough after analysing an ancient skull, known as ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

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 ...

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 ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...