US EditionMillion-Year-Old China Skull Challenges Human Evolution Timeline
Researchers digitally reconstructed a 1-million-year-old skull from China, suggesting Homo sapiens and Denisovans diverged 1.32 million years ago, pushing back human evolution timelines by 400,000 years.
- A million-year-old skull known as Yunxian 2 challenges the timeline of human evolution, suggesting that Homo sapiens may have emerged earlier than 300,000 years ago, according to Professor Chris Stringer.
- Researchers have determined that Yunxian 2 belongs to the Homo longi clade, which is a sister species to both Neanderthals and modern humans, as stated in the journal Science.
- Research indicates that Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Homo longi may have coexisted for up to 800,000 years, as discussed by Professor Chris Stringer in the study.
- Experts urge caution regarding the findings, particularly about the timing of human evolution, as warned by Dr. Aylwyn Scally, who highlights the unpredictability of such estimates.
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The digital reconstruction of a fossil skull calls into question the knowledge of human evolution. According to this, Homo sapiens lived near hominids far earlier than thought: in Asia instead of Africa.
A skull reconstruction indicates an earlier separation of homo sapiens – and an origin in East Asia.
The digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests that humans may have diverged from their ancestors 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. Moreover, according to a study in Science, this occurred in Asia, not Africa. The crushed skull was discovered in China in 1990 and named Yunxian. Until now, it was considered to belong to Homo erectus, an ancestor of our species.
Digital analysis of bone remains known as Yunxian 2 in China shows that the separation between Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans occurred long before the estimate
A crushed skull unearthed decades ago in China completely upends the human family tree, according to a new study. The new analysis suggests that modern humans, Homo sapiens, may have emerged half a million years earlier than previously thought. The results are published in Science. The researchers' analysis is based on a digital reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 skull and more than a hundred other cranial fossils. The reconstruction used advanced …
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