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Nature 431, 1029 (28 October 2004) | doi:10.1038/4311029a; Published online 27 October 2004
Little lady of Flores forces rethink of human evolution
Rex Dalton
A new human-like species — a dwarfed relative who lived just 18,000 years ago in the company of pygmy elephants and giant lizards — has been discovered in Indonesia.Skeletal remains show that the hominins, nicknamed 'hobbits' by some of their discoverers, were only one metre tall, had a brain one-third the size of that of modern humans, and lived on an isolated island long after Homo sapiens had migrated through the South Pacific region.
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