'Hobbit' fossils represent a new species, concludes University of Minnesota anthropologist
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 18:07
in Paleontology & Archaeology
University of Minnesota anthropology professor Kieran McNulty (along with colleague Karen Baab of Stony Brook University in New York) has made an important contribution toward solving one of the greatest paleoanthropological mysteries in recent history -- that fossilized skeletons resembling a mythical "hobbit" creature represent an entirely new species in humanity's evolutionary chain.
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