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Nature 446, 979-980 (26 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446979a; Published online 25 April 2007
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- University of Texas Medical Branch
- Galveston, TX United States
Chair, Department of Informatic Medicine and Personalized Health
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Henry Gee1
BOOK REVIEWED-The Discovery of the Hobbit: The Scientific Breakthrough that Changed the Face of Human History
by Mike Morwood & Penny Van Oosterzee
Random House: 2007. 326 pp. Aus $34.95. To be published as A New Human by HarperCollins/Smithsonian in May.
The unicorn, wrote Jorge Luis Borges (in Kafka and His Precursors), is universally regarded as a supernatural being of good omen. But there's a problem: despite its folkloric familiarity, we wouldn't know how to recognize a unicorn if we met one in real life.
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