A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it’s probably closely ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

Using information from the new digital reconstruction and anatomical ... This would place the origins of all these groups firmly in the time of Homo erectus. “At this point in time, I think the safer ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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

HUBEI, China — 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.

Along Turkey’s northwestern shoreline, where the Aegean Sea meets the olive-covered ridges of Anatolia, lies a quiet district ...

Newly discovered footprints at Lake Turkana offer a rare glimpse into two ancient species coexisting and walking side by side 1.5 million years ago.

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This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...

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