Footprints uncovered in Kenya show that as early as 1.5 million years ago an ancestral species, almost certainly Homo erectus, had already evolved the feet and walking gait of modern humans. An international team of scientists, in a report on Friday in the journal Science, said the well-defined prints in an eroding bluff east of Lake Turkana “ ( Read more... )

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'Hobbit' fossil: dwarf or new species?
Last Updated Thu, 18 May 2006 14:40:49 EDT
CBC NewsThe "Hobbit" fossils of a tiny human found in Indonesia aren't those of a new species, a primatologist proposes, but actually someone with a genetic illness that causes dwarfism ( Read more... )

In a hole in a ground there lived some hobbits -- lots of them, apparently ( Read more... )

Archaeologists in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have unearthed a skull they say is 1.8 million years old and part of a find that holds that oldest traces of humankind's closest ancestors ever found in Europe ( Read more... )