By bno - Taipei Office A human skull unearthed in central China and dated to around 1mn years ago could overturn prevailing assumptions about the origins of Homo sapiens and the timeline of human ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

FUXIN, China (Reuters) - Coal has supplied more than 70 percent of China's energy for the past 50 years and that shows no sign of waning. Consumption, in fact, has increased 10 percent a year the past ...

Contributors: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine), Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick), Stephen R. Platt (University of Massachusetts), Robert Bickers (University of Bristol), ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...