A First Look at the Bones of a ‘Hobbit’
Monday, April 20, 2009 - 15:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A “hobbit” will be making its public debut on Tuesday at Stony Brook University on Long Island. A cast of the skull and bones of the hominid Homo floresiensis, its diminutive size inspiring the hobbit nickname, will be displayed for the first time at a public symposium on human evolution, titled “Hobbits in the Haystack.”.
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