A human fossil discovery ... researchers knew the group had small heads. But the discovery of the humerus in particular helps shed some more light on the body size of Homo floresiensis.

Here’s how Tandon, a 35-year-old biomedical and electrical engineer, sees it working: A doctor uses a CT scanner to image the damaged section of bone and takes a small sample of fatty tissue.

A new study reports the discovery of extremely rare early human ... that small body size evolved early in the history of Flores hominins. However, as postcranial elements (bones from below the ...

the director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution. While many scientists laud the research for its thoroughness, defining a species from just 13 small bones and teeth is tricky.