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A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

The fellowship that we call humanity contains some unlikely characters, not least of all a diminutive extinct species known ...

with three or more human species in the region at around the time our ancestors arrive. One of these species was the diminutive "Hobbit" - Homo floresiensis - which survived on the Indonesian ...

Q: In view of the fact that we modern humans retain a number ... If we can find the DNA of a hobbit, then that would show whether the two species were genetically compatible.

(At left, LB1's skull.) After LB1's discovery, some scientists had suggested that the hobbit was really a modern human, just a small one. But when Falk's team measured the brains of LB1 and Homo ...

The astonishingly small adult limb bone discovered in Indonesia rekindles debates about modern humans' ancient relative ... insights into this diminutive species, highlighting their small physical ...

The original hobbit fossils — named by the discoverers ... They're thought to be among the last early human species to go extinct. Scientists don't yet know whether the hobbits shrank from ...