US EditionYunxian 2: Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Surprising Human Origins Theory
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Scientists are reanalyzing an early human skull found in China. The new study changes the estimate of how long modern humans, Homo sapiens, have lived on Earth.
A million-year-old fossil skull, found in China in 1990, could significantly alter the known history of human evolution. A recent digital reconstruction revealed that this skull, known as Yunxian 2, shows features that could locate the divergence of modern humans from their ancestors 400,000 years earlier than had been estimated. The study, published in Science magazine, indicates that this evolutionary division would not have occurred in Africa…
A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull, discovered in China in 1990, is turning the scientific world upside down. The skull, known as Yunxian 2, was long thought to belong to Homo erectus, an early ancestor of modern humans. But new analyses suggest it is more likely related to Homo longi and even Homo sapiens, implying that human evolution may have begun 400,000 years earlier than previously thought.
A recent study is challenging many of the ideas we had about the origin of our species and our closest relatives. A detailed analysis of fossil remains suggests that the common ancestor between Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans could have lived more than a million years ago, twice as much as previously estimated. This revelation could drastically reconfigure our understanding of human evolution. The key to this reassessment comes from th…
From a 1 million year old skull excavated in China, scientists believe that Asia may be the cradle of ancient humans, instead of Africa.
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