&#39;Hobbit&#39; Skeleton Could Rewrite Prehistory
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The tiny humans may have been hunted by large lizards -- bigger versions of the Komodo dragons that still roam the island and which have been known to eat people.
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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy
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LIANG BUA, IndonesiaâThe discovery of remains of a tiny human closely related to man on the remote Indonesian island of Flores and tales of hobbit-like creatures
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A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago &#151; perhaps close to the dawn of the species.
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
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Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist. Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, researchers have wrangled over whether the find was an ancient human ancestor or simply a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.
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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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A tiny hobbit-like human that lived 18,000 years ago was a member of its own species, not a modern human with a brain disorder, according to a new study of the hominin's skull.
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Australian scientists have found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 18,000 years ago on an Indonesian island. The discovery adds another piece to the complex puzzle of human evolution.
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Australian scientists who found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 13,000 years ago on an Indonesian island said on Thursday they expect to discover more new species of hominids on neighboring islands.
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In an astonishing discovery that could rewrite the history of human evolution, scientists say they have found the skeleton of a new human species, a dwarf, marooned for eons in a tropical
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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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By constructing a complete genome of the Neanderthal, researchers hope to solve the age-old mystery of just how close an ancestor this creature was.
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There&#39;s a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago.
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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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The story of modern humansâ final interactions with the extinct Homo erectus may have been revealed by research into the evolution of lice.