Ancient Skull Discovery Indicates Older Age for Modern Humans

A recently reconstructed million-year-old skull, found in Hubei Province, China, suggests that Homo sapiens diverged from its ancestors 400,000 years earlier than previously believed, potentially in Asia rather than Africa. Researchers determined that the skull, named Yunxian 2, is linked to an early human group known as Homo longi, indicating a more complex evolutionary history than assumed.

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