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Published online 20 September 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070917-8
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Wrist bones bolster hobbit status
Ape-like wrists suggest that Homo floresiensis was a distinct species.
More evidence has emerged supporting the theory that the 'hobbits', which lived on the remote Indonesian island of Flores tens of thousands of years ago, were indeed a unique species.
Painstaking study of Homo floresiensis wrist bones shows that their wrists were far more primitive than ours — suggesting that they were evolutionarily distinct from modern humans.
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