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A stranger from Flores

When a new fossil is found it is often claimed that it will rewrite the anthropological textbooks. But in the case of an astonishing new discovery from Indonesia, this claim is fully justified.

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Stringer, C. A stranger from Flores. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news041025-3

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