We may have finally found the ancestors of the mysterious miniature Homo floresiensis, aka the hobbit. A new cache of hobbit-like remains uncovered on the island of Flores answers at least some questions in the decade-long quest to understand the identity and origins of this tiny ancient hominin. Image: Kinez Riza
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Early in the 20th century most researchers believed we evolved in Eurasia rather than Africa. Surprisingly, they may have been partially correct. Recently, some prominent researchers have come round to the idea that hominins may have left their African cradle much earlier than we thought and undergone critical evolutionary transitions further north. Image: Cea.
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Homo floresiensis, the human hobbit, had a skull like that of a taller hominin called Homo erectus, suggesting to some that the hobbit was a dwarf species that evolved from this larger one. But the hobbit’s teeth and brain are smaller than expected of a dwarf – the world’s tiniest monkey could explain why. Image: San Diego Shooter
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Sometime in the distant past our ancestors’ brains grew sophisticated enough to ponder life’s big questions. In this book, Dean Falk explains how the study of those ancient brains – or at least, the impressions they left in the skulls they occupied – may help to provide an answer to one of the biggest questions: where did we come from? Image: Mamoritai
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