An ancient hominid skeleton dubbed Little Foot possessed a brain largely similar to that of modern chimpanzees and an inner ear with a mix of apelike and humanlike features, two studies suggest. These ...

The brain of one of the oldest Australopithecus individuals ever found was a little bit ape-like and a little bit human. The modern human brain owes a lot to these small, hairy human ancestors, but we ...

The nearly complete brain of the ancient human relative "Little Foot" shows this ancient hominin had a small brain with a combination of ape-like and human-like features. Hominins include modern and ...

Ultra high-res brain scanning has revealed clear maps of individual toes in two foot painters, born without either arm. While these organised toe maps are not found in typically developed humans, they ...

Ultra high-res brain scanning has revealed clear maps of individual toes in two foot painters, born without either arm. While these organised toe maps are not found in typically developed humans, they ...