Million-year-old skull could change human evolution timeline | International

BANGKOK, Sept 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than previously thought and in Asia not Africa, a new study said Friday. The findings are based on a reconstruction of a crushed skull discovered in China in 1990, and have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said. The skull, labelled Yunxian 2, was previously thought to belong to a human forerunner called Homo erectus. But modern reconstruction technologies used by a group of researchers found features that are closer to species previously thought to have existed only later in human evolution, including the recently discovered Homo...