Complete hominoid skulls are a rare find and can offer an important opportunity to gain further insights into human evolution. The skull of Yunxian 1, an earlier find at the site. [Photo: Gary Todd] ...

March 21 -- A 3.5-million-year-old, flat-faced early human skull, which paleontologists found poking from the crumbling Kenyan earth, could push "Lucy" out of our ancestral family tree. For 20 ...

The skull has similar facial features to those of early modern humans. The skull could potentially belong to a direct human ancestor called Homo erectus sometime between 550,000 and 750,000 years ago.

In this video I will explain the difference between Hominids and Hominins, when the hominins split off from the hominids and why this distinction is important. And I explain the entire evolutionary ...

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"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was swept away by the waves of new arrivals." Nor is this the first case of a ...

That means it could be as much as 1 million years older than previously found hominid fossils, and at least 3 million years older than the next-oldest hominid skulls.

More intriguingly, they compared it to other known hominid skulls and found no match. The cranium was larger than any other hominid, suggesting a brain size in line with our own.