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Nature 459, 41-42 (7 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/459041a; Published online 6 May 2009
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Palaeoanthropology: Homo floresiensis from head to toe
Daniel E. Lieberman1
Abstract
Fossils of tiny ancient humans, found on the island of Flores, have provoked much debate and speculation. Evidence that they are a real species comes from analyses of the foot and also — more surprisingly — of dwarf hippos.
Good science requires a healthy dose of tempered scepticism — at its heart, the process involves trying to reject proposed hypotheses. So it was understandable that the announcement1, 2 in 2004 of the discovery of a species of dwarfed hominin, Homo floresiensis, from the island of Flores, Indonesia, stimulated a range of opinions, many of them sceptical, that the fossils constituted a new species and were not the consequence of some pathological condition.
- Daniel E. Lieberman is in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Email: danlieb@fas.harvard.edu
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