The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

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 found. The ...

A large crowd of protesters gathered in front of Los Angeles City Hall Wednesday evening. Bedel Saget/The New York Times Clashes in Los Angeles between law enforcement and people protesting ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A human skull found in 1990 ...

HHS said Susan Monarez was no longer CDC director. Monarez rejected the firing. The attempted ousting of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and resignations of four ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

In this video, I explain the difference between hominids and hominins, including the timeline of when the hominins split off from the hominids and the significance of this distinction. I cover the ...

Researchers believe a skull unearthed in 1990 suggests the emergence of the human species occurred 400,000 years earlier than previously believed The fossil was discovered in China’s Hubei Province ...