FILE PHOTO: No 3 skull of Yunxian Man is found in an excavation site known as Xuetangliangzi in Yunyang district, Shiyan city, Central China’s Hubei province. [Xinhua via China Daily/Asia News Network ...

Bangkok (AFP) – A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

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 ...