About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside ... Either the skull crest is variable in European populations, potentially related to sexual maturity or ...

For decades, scientists debated whether the Turkmen skull represented a separate species or an aberrant individual of the ...

The 2 million-year-old fossil skull, excavated over a five-year period in South Africa, suggests the early human relative emerged between 100,000 and 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.