Million-year-old skull found in China could rewrite human evolution timeline, study finds: "This changes a lot of thinking"

science • 9/26/2025

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The findings, published Thursday, are based on a reconstructi... [4361 chars]