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Nature 437, 957-958 (13 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/437957a; Published online 12 October 2005
Palaeoanthropology: Further fossil finds from Flores
Daniel E. Lieberman1
Abstract
New fossil discoveries on Flores, Indonesia, bolster the evidence that Homo floresiensis was a dwarfed human species that lived at the end of the last ice age. But the species' evolutionary origins remain obscure.
When Gulliver was shipwrecked on the East Indian island of Lilliput in Swift's satirical novel, he was astonished to discover tiny humans. Last year's announcement1, 2 of a newly discovered species of tiny human from the Indonesian island of Flores was far more astonishing, because it wasn't made up.
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