Ancient Chinese Skull Discovery Rewrites Human Evolution Timeline: Asian Origins Challenge African Hypothesis

Sep 26, 2025 04:43 pm CST

A million-year-old skull from China, digitally reconstructed using advanced technology, suggests human evolution may have begun 400,000 years earlier than previously thought and originated in Asia rather than Africa. This Yunxian 2 skull exhibits features of both Homo erectus and later species, potentially resolving the "Muddle in the Middle" mystery in human evolutionary history and fundamentally changing our understanding of human origins.