The hobbit-like human was smart enough to make stone tools despite its small brain, according to research ( Read more... )

Genetic analysis suggests a messy split between the two lineages.The evolutionary split between humans and our nearest evolutionary cousins, chimpanzees, may have occurred more recently than we thought, according to a new comparison of the respective genetic sequences. What's more, it might have been a messy divorce rather than a clean break - ( Read more... )

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

By JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, AP Science Writer ( 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... )

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University is joining the long-running debate over the theory of evolution by launching a research project to study how life began.

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