About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit" thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more ...

For several tutorials we have been examining species within the genus Homo, some of which were the direct ancestors of modern humans, and some of which survived until fairly recently, historically ...

Could a tiny, hobbit-like 'ape man' have survived for a million years on a tiny Indonesian island... and still be alive today? The idea sounds like the stuff of Hollywood fantasy, but anthropologist ...