It takes a huge amount of energy for human brains to grow to their current large size and be maintained over time. Our early human ancestors evolved to grow bigger brains, but the biological changes ...

Scientists are suggesting that a “large-headed” group of extinct humans once lived during the same time as homo sapiens — that’s us, of course — hundreds of millennia ago in what’s now modern-day ...

Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensis, meaning "big head," based partly on a very large skull found in China. But what is this new species, ...