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.

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 ...

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

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

A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo ...

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

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the ...

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

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