A Million-Year-Old Skull from China Could Rewrite Human Evolution
In a groundbreaking discovery, a digitally reconstructed skull from China, known as Yunxian 2, is challenging long-held beliefs about the origins of Homo sapiens. Unearthed in Hubei province and estimated to be 1 million years old, this fossil suggests that our species—or a close relative—may have emerged at least 500,000 years earlier than previously thought. … Read more