5 SHULLS THAT SHOOK UP THE STORY OF HUMAN EVOLUTION: These are heady times for paleoanthropologists. In the opening decades of the 21st century, new discoveries have refined and revised the story of human evolution at an unprecedented rate

Researchers have added four new members to the genus Homo: South Africa's Homo naledi, Asia's Denisovans, Indonesia's 'hobbit' H. floresiensis and, justlast year, its neighbor in the Philippines, H luzonensis. [...]