A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

The findings are based on a reconstruction of a crushed skull discovered in China in 1990, and have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

More than 20 species make a nearly identical noise to warn nearby birds of brood parasites, a behavior that bridges the “sharp division between animal communication systems and human language” A ...

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

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

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

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

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...