Homo Floresiensis: Hobbit Species Continues To Provoke Questions About Human Evolution

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 13:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

By Sarah King, Genetic Literacy ProjectSince the discovery in 2004 of Homo floresiensis, an ancient hominid nicknamed “Flo” and also “hobbit”, after the diminutive villagers from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, due to her small size relative to modern humans, much debate has been raised over the origins of the species. read more

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