Scientists: Hobbit wasn't a modern human
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Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist.
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Neandertals may have died out like a bad movie&#151;by word of mouth. Modern humans' complex use of language sounded the defeat of their big-browed cousins, a new study says.
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New findings suggest that some Neanderthals were fair-skinned and redheaded.
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Computer engineers could - in theory at least - reconstruct the genes of an animal that lived more than 75 million years ago. No DNA could possibly survive that long, but forensic scientists now routinely
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Biologists are turning up evidence that humans are not, physically or even mentally, in a class by themselves.
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a heretofore unknown species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
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The story of modern humansâ final interactions with the extinct Homo erectus may have been revealed by research into the evolution of lice.
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Science & environment: Fossilised skull thought to date back up to 100,000 years, a period long a mystery to scientists
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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea - a prehistoric hunter in a &quot;lost world&quot; of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
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Analysis of a 40,000-year-old tooth found in southern Greece suggests Neanderthals were more mobile than once thought, paleontologists said Friday.
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The discovery of fossils from a race of ancient, hobbit-like human ancestors on the Indonesian island of Flores earlier this year has triggered a small tourism boom, island officials say.
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Australian and Indonesian scientists have discovered a species of tiny human beings who lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores 18,000 years ago.
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A new study of the phylogeny of human head and body lice provides evidence that Homo sapiens once made direct physical contact with a more archaic lineage.
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WORK by a British scientist may show that humans were not responsible for the bison almost becoming extinct in the 19th century, it was disclosed yesterday.
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Scientists have explained mathematically why the famous &quot;silly walks&quot; of Monty Python&#39;s John Cleese have never caught on in the long history of Homo sapiens.
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The discovery of remains of a tiny human closely related to man on the remote Indonesian island of Flores and tales of Hobbit-like creatures who still roam its jungles have triggered an influx of visitors in search of a fabled lost world.
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Long live the real Bilbo Baggins, the first Little People of the World, Homo floresiensis and Homo sapien archeologists Michael Morwood, Peter Brown and Professor Soejono!