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

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

Everywhere you go, you carry a population of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract that outnumber the human cells making up ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

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

A new study concludes that the speed at which the human brain evolved may help explain why our species experiences autism.

Charles Darwin suggested in 1871 that spoken language originated with instinctive sounds, like squeals or yells, which humans ...

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

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

What makes the human brain different from that of other primates has long been a question. A new study suggests that the ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.