Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens' Origins By 400,000 Years
Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Homo Sapiens Are Nearly Twice As Old As We ThoughtUntil recently, it was thought that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals split off from their last common ancestor around 600,000 years ago, but a prehistoric skull from China has just shattered that narrative. Dated to a million years ago, the cranium belongs to an extinct human clade which encompasses the Denisovans,...