Palaeontology
'Hobbit' species still remains a mystery
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T.K. RandallMay 4, 2009 ·
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Even six years on, the discovery of a strange new prehistoric species of small human nicknamed 'hobbits' continues to mystify scientists around the world. Who was Homo floresiensis and what do we know about them ?
Six years after their discovery, the extinct little people nicknamed hobbits who once occupied the Indonesian island of Flores remain mystifying anomalies in human evolution, out of place in time and geography, their ancestry unknown. Recent research has only widened their challenge to conventional thinking about the origins, transformations and migrations of the early human family."
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New York Times |
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