US EditionMillion-Year-Old China Skull Challenges Human Evolution Timeline
Digital reconstruction of the 1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 skull suggests Homo sapiens diverged 400,000 years earlier, indicating a complex Asian-centered human evolutionary history.
- A million-year-old human skull found in China's Hubei Province may indicate that Homo sapiens began to emerge over one million years ago, pushing back origins by around 400,000 years, according to researchers.
- The skull, named Yunxian 2, is thought to belong to a Homo longi and shows a mix of modern and primitive features.
- The discovery challenges the belief that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, suggesting they may have arisen from Asia instead.
- This fossil, due to its reliable dating, is important for reconstructing the human family tree.
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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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