Million-Year-Old Skull Rewrites Human Evolution, Scientists Claim

The BBC reports that a million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that the human species “began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.”

It also shows that we co-existed with other sister species, including Neanderthals, for much longer than we’ve come to believe, they say.

The scientists claim their analysis “totally changes” our understanding of human evolution and, if correct, it would certainly…