"Hobbits" Were Separate Species, Skull Suggests
Friday, January 23, 2009 - 16:42
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A tiny skull discovered in 2003 comes from an ancestor of today's humans, not a diseased or unusually small modern human, new research suggests.
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