A million-year-old human skull found in China has suggested that our species, Homo sapiens, likely began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than was thought, according to researchers.

The skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province in 1990. However, the skull was badly deformed during fossilisation.

According to Reuters, researchers used sophisticated scanning anrwr4d digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, and compared it to more than 100 other human fossils.

“It has a long, low skull and receding forehead behind a strong browridge, but the estimated brain size is the largest so far for any hominin of that age. The face is big but with flat and forward-facing cheekbones, and a lar

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