Tag: ancient skulls
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Human Evolution Rewritten: Million-Year Skull Challenge to Homo erectus
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, it had for years been cited as a classic Homo erectus specimen—the archetype many researchers used to map the early spread of humanity. Then, a small team unveiled something unexpected:…
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Yunxian 2 Skull Rewrites the Human Evolution Timeline
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 reshape how we understand human origins. Using a combination of computed tomography (CT), structured-light imaging, and advanced virtual reconstruction, researchers built a complete model of the skull and compared it…