Humans evolved larger brains and flatter faces much faster than other apes, suggesting that intelligence shaped our skulls.

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously ...

Drinking from skulls might not be limited to lurid serial killer movies. Archaeologists have exhumed skull cups and skeleton ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.

Humans evolved their unique skull shape—large brains and flat faces—at a much faster rate than any other ape species, ...