Million-year-old skull suggests humans emerged earlier than thought, challenging the Africa-centric theory of evolution

Million-year-old skull suggests humans emerged earlier than thought, challenging the Africa-centric theory of evolution

 03:07 26/09/2025

A million-year-old skull, Yunxian 2, discovered in China, challenges the Africa-centric model of human evolution. Reconstructed digitally, it suggests large-brained humans, potentially Homo longi, existed in Asia much earlier than believed. This finding implies a more geographically diverse and earlier emergence of modern humans, prompting further research into Eurasia's role in human ancestry.
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