Prehistoric skull rewrites history


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

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

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