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

“Human evolution is a tree,” said Prof ... What made this possible was technology. The Yunxian skulls were severely crushed when they were first found, so early reconstructions were distorted and hard ...

A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer' What was the timeline of human evolution? What was our last common ancestor? In this quickfire special, anthropologist and ...

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 ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

While the Vatican acknowledges stages of technological development, it lacks a model of integrating science and religion that can adequately assess the influence of technology. The Vatican's approach, ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to researchers.

“Human evolution is a tree,” said Prof. Xijun Ni of Fudan University, who led the research along with Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London. “This tree had many branches, and there ...