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

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

A digitally reconstructed skull discovered in China has scientists questioning long-held beliefs about the timeline of human ...

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

The findings could help resolve the long-standing “Muddle in the Middle” of human evolution, a period between one million and 300,000 years ago that has produced confusing fossil evidence. While ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...

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 ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected long ...

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Amna Nawaz: We often talk about human origins as the evolution of man, but what if we saw it as the evolution of woman? A new book argues for a better understanding of our beginnings, with critical ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...