"It's time to rewrite the family tree, as scientists have revealed that our species is even older than we thought. Previous studies have proved that we evolved in Africa before finally conquering the world - getting the better of some other rival human species on our way. However, scientists now say we've been getting the date of own origins totally wrong. In a new paper, the experts that claim Homo sapiens began to emerge over one million years ago."
"The focus of this study is Yunxian 2, a fossilised cranium found badly crushed by excavators in Hubei, China back in 1990. Dating back one million years ago, the heavily deformed skull was once thought to belong to an adult male member of the species Homo erectus. Using CT scanning, light imaging and virtual reconstruction techniques, the team made a physical model of what the skull would look like had it not been squashed."
New analysis places the emergence of Homo sapiens at over one million years ago, rather than about 600,000 years, extending the timeline by roughly 400,000 years. A heavily crushed cranium labeled Yunxian 2, recovered in Hubei, China in 1990 and previously assigned to Homo erectus, was virtually reconstructed using CT scanning, light imaging and physical modeling. Small anatomical elements from Yunxian 1 (1989) were incorporated into the reconstruction. The completed model was compared with 104 other fossil specimens and replicas and displays primitive traits similar to Homo erectus, including a large squat braincase and strong brow ridge, implying a more complex and earlier mosaic of features in human evolution.
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