A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

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

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

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.It ...

The skull reconstruction points to an Asian lineage that includes Homo longi and the mysterious Denisovans. It essentially ...

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