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Million-year-old Skull Could Change Human Evolution Timeline

Researchers believe the reconstructed million-year-old skull belonged to the Homo longi species discovered in 2021 (Credit: AFP)

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday.

The findings are based on a reconstruction of a crushed skull discovered in China in 1990, and have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

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