Ancient Chinese Skull Reshapes Human Evolution Timeline
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A crushed skull found in China, dated to about 1 million years ago, has been digitally reconstructed and suggests that early Denisovans and related human lineages appeared much earlier than previously thought, potentially reshaping the timeline of human evolution and indicating that modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans diverged over a million years ago.
- A skull unearthed in China challenges the timeline of human evolution, scientists say CNN
- Million-year-old skull rewrites human evolution, scientists claim BBC
- New look at ancient skull challenges timeline of human evolution The Washington Post
- Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans The Guardian
- 1 million-year-old skull from China holds clues to the origins of Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans Live Science
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