US EditionScientists Say a Skull Unearthed in China Challenges the Timeline of Human Evolution
Advanced digital reconstruction reclassified a 1-million-year-old skull as Homo longi, suggesting human evolutionary splits occurred at least 400,000 years earlier, scientists say.
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Has the history of human evolution been rewritten?
A new report from the field of human origins had sub-editors reaching for their hyperboles. A million-year-old skull, we have learnt, has rewritten humanity’s story. The finality of this is misleading, but there is nonetheless something going on here. If Neanderthals, Denisovans and sapiens evolved away from each other a million years ago, there must have
Million-Year-Old Skull Discovery May Rewrite Human Evolution
Could the story of human evolution be about to change — and by 400,000 years? That’s the bold claim of a new study suggesting our ancestors may have split far earlier than we thought — and not in Africa, but in Asia.It all hinges on a battered million-year-old skull dug up in China back in 1990. Using cutting-edge CT scans and digital reconstruction, scientists pieced together “Yunxian 2.” They spotted something startling: features not of Homo e…
The novel study of a million-year-old human skull found in China revealed a previously unknown branch of the human genealogical tree, which selectively backs the accepted chronology of human evolution. The finding was published in the journal “Science”. The study identified the fossil known as “Yunxian...
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A new study of a million-year-old human skull, found in central China, revealed a previously unknown branch of the human genealogical tree, which selectively backs the accepted chronology of human evolution. Published this week in Science magazine, the study identified the fossil, known as “Yunxian 2”, as an early member of the Homo longi clade (also known as “Dragon Man”) and suggested that the division among primitive human lineages occurred m…
Digital analysis and reconstruction of discovered skull in 1990 aims to predict the separation between modern humans and neanderthals in almost half a million years. But not all agree.
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