A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

I see the Nesher Ramla Homo fossils as a rare chance to watch human evolution get rewritten in real time. A few fragmentary bones from central Israel, dated to roughly 120,000 years ago, have forced ...

A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...