Ancient skull from China suggests earlier human origins

A million-year-old skull found in China suggests modern human origins may be much older and potentially outside Africa. Scientists reanalyzed the Yunxian 2 skull, now believed to be Homo longi, a species closely related to Denisovans, potentially pushing back the split between human groups by hundreds of thousands of years. This finding could significantly revise our understanding of human evolution, suggesting a more complex and earlier divergence of ancestral groups than previously thought.