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Nature 442, 957 (31 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/442957b; Published online 30 August 2006

Rude palaeoanthropology

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Controversies over Homo floresiensis reflect a flourishing science.

Debate is something on which science thrives. Active disputes are signs of a discipline in rude health, in which discovery piles on discovery, each new fragment of knowledge questioning the one before, until sufficient findings accumulate to decide the matter one way or the other.