This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

Small human body size, or the 'pygmy'phenotype, is characteristic of certain African,
Southeast Asian and South American populations. The convergent evolution of this …

The evolutionary origin of Homo floresiensis, a diminutive hominin species previously
known only by skeletal remains from Liang Bua in western Flores, Indonesia, has been …

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life.
Paleobiologists bring many analytical tools to bear in interpreting the fossil record and the …

The island rule is a hypothesis whereby small mammals evolve larger size on islands while
large insular mammals dwarf. The rule is believed to emanate from small mammals growing …

Height is correlated with risk to certain diseases and various socio-economic outcomes. As
an easy to observe and measure trait, it has been a classic paradigm in the emergence of …

Although the diminutive Homo floresiensis has been known for a decade, its phylogenetic
status remains highly contentious. A broad range of potential explanations for the evolution …

Recent discoveries of Homo floresiensis and H. luzonensis raise questions regarding how
extreme body size reduction occurred in some extinct Homo species in insular …

Whether the Late Pleistocene hominin fossils from Flores, Indonesia, represent a new
species, Homo floresiensis, or pathological modern humans has been debated. Analysis of …

There is a “package” of cultural innovations that are claimed to reflect modern human
behaviour. The introduction of the “package” has been associated with the Middle-to-Upper …