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 skull, labelled Yunxian 2, was previously thought to belong to a human forerunner called Homo erectus.{ai:summary}A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans diverged from ancient ancestors about 400,000 years earlier than thought.The study places the split in Asia rather than Africa. #history

Million-year-old skull could change human evolution timeline

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