Summary:
- Researchers have discovered a 1.5-million-year-old skull in Kenya that could significantly alter the timeline of human evolution.
- The skull, found in the Kenyan town of Turkana, belongs to an early human ancestor known as Homo erectus and is much older than previously discovered Homo erectus fossils.
- This discovery suggests that Homo erectus, a species that lived in Africa and Asia for nearly 2 million years, may have emerged earlier than previously thought, potentially pushing back the timeline of human evolution.