An ancient human skull, unearthed in 1990 in China's Hubei Province, could alter the understanding of human evolution. The skull, named Yunxian 2, was initially difficult to analyze due to deformation during fossilization. However, new scanning and digital reconstruction techniques have revealed that it belongs to an early branch of a sister lineage to Homo sapiens . The skull is estimated to be between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old and may be the oldest-known member of an evolutionary lineage that includes the Denisovans, who later interbred with Homo sapiens across Asia.

According to NBC News , the skull, believed to be of a man aged 30 to 40 , was previously classified as Homo erectus. However, new findings suggest it exhibits features that distinguish it from Homo erectus, s

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