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

A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to researchers.

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

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

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

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: ...