The Skull That Could Rewrite Human History - This seemingly ordinary skull is anything but. Unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, Yunxian 2 was buried for a million years, initially thought to be Homo erectus. Closer examination revealed it belongs to Homo longi—a species that may push back the emergence of modern humans by half a million years. For nearly a million years, early humans, Neanderthals, and their relatives coexisted, shaping each other’s evolution. Published in Science, these findin