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Reconstructing a fossil as a new scientific reference The Yunxian 2 skull, unearthed in Hubei and dated to roughly 940,000–1.1 million years ago, has become…

In 1990, a long-studied skull kept in a museum drawer became the unlikely center of a scientific catapult. Dated to roughly one million years ago,…

New insights from Yunxian 2 A crushed skull discovered in China in 1990, nicknamed Yunxian 2, is at the center of a breakthrough that could…

Introduction A breakthrough in paleoanthropology could rewrite the early chapters of human evolution. A one-million-year-old skull found in Yunxian, China, is being studied with cutting-edge…
