The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage ...

A MAJOR mystery surrounding tiny ancient human cousins nicknamed “Hobbits” has finally been solved. Scientists say they’ve cracked a main puzzle about how the 3-foot-tall species ...

Follow Homo sapiens as they venture out of Africa and spread farther than any other human species. Follow Homo Sapiens as they venture across the world, farther than any other human species. See how ...

Until about 60,000 years ago, the Indonesian island of Flores was home to a miniature hominin species called Homo floresiensis – otherwise known as the Hobbit humans. The discovery of this petite ...

The one exception in genus Homo is Homo floresiensis, the Hobbit. The wisdom teeth of the Hobbits ... attention on increasing brain size as the predominant force in human evolution. Other species in ...

Return of the Jedi was the third Star Wars movie, and while it is mainly categorized as sci-fi, the three earlier franchise ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed the fossilized skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, to aid their research A human skull found in 1990 is now changing scientists' understanding ...

A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought, researchers are claiming in a new study.

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...