Tag: Paleoanthropology
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A Million-Year Skull Rewrites the Human Evolution Timeline
The Million Year Skull Discovery and the Debate In a fictional retrospective set in 1990, a fossil unearthed at a remote site dating to roughly one million years ago sparks a quiet but intense debate. Initial field notes labeled the skull as Homo erectus, a badge that has clung to many early hominin finds for…
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Million-Year-Old Skull Could Alter the Timeline of Human Evolution
A skull that could rewrite human history A digital reconstruction of a shattered skull unearthed in China in 1990, nicknamed Yunxian 2, is challenging long-held ideas about when and where humans split from their ancient relatives. Previously classified as Homo erectus, the fossil now appears to share features with later relatives such as Homo longi…
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One-Million-Year Skull in China Reframes Human Evolution
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 digital reconstruction techniques, challenging the view that our distant ancestors diverged primarily in Africa. The Yunxian 2 Skull Comes Alive Discovered in 1990, the crushed Yunxian 2 skull was long…