New fossil discoveries on Flores, Indonesia, bolster the evidence that Homo floresiensis was a dwarfed human species that lived at the end of the last ice age. But the species' evolutionary origins remain obscure.
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Lieberman, D. Further fossil finds from Flores. Nature 437, 957–958 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/437957a
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