Before there was the human, there was the hobbit. Now, after discovering stone tools that are 1.48 million years old, archaeologists are gaining a clearer picture of how our diminutive and elusive ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and bigger brains. Via a process called encephalization, human brains evolved ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you will learn when you read this story: Homo floresiensis was a diminutive species of ...

Almost 20 years ago, the discovery of a human skeleton with a chimp-sized brain and short stature (~1 meter) in a cave on a remote Indonesian island shocked both scientists and the general public ...

Homo floresiensis was a diminutive species of hominin that lived on the Indonesian island of Flores and went extinct about 60,000 years ago. While hominin brains kept increasing throughout human ...

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