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4 results for "hobbit"

R_2_04 Verified Biology & Evolution

R_2_04 — Homo Floresiensis: The Hobbit Mystery

In 2003, a team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists discovered a tiny, near-complete hominin skeleton in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia. Designated Homo floresiensis (Brown et al. 2004, Nature)

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F_4_24 Verified Lost Connections

F_4_24 — Homo floresiensis: The "Hobbit" of Flores

Homo floresiensis — popularly known as "the Hobbit" — is an extinct species of small-bodied hominin whose discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 was one of the most startling finds in the history of paleoan

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L_1_17 Verified Genetics & Origins

L_1_17 — Homo Floresiensis

Homo floresiensis is one of the most controversial hominin discoveries of the 21st century. Found in Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores by Mike Morwood and Thomas Sutikna in September 2003 (announced Octob

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L_1_04 Verified Genetics & Origins

L_1_04 — Archaic Human Species Synthesis

The human evolutionary tree is far more complex than the older linear model suggested. Fossils, ancient DNA, and proteomics now show that Homo sapiens overlapped with several other hominin lineages, including Neanderthal

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