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'Hobbits' found on Indonesian island a different species to humans
Diminutive humans who died out on an Indonesian island some 15,000 years ago were not Homo sapiens but a different species, according to a study that dives into a fierce anthropological debate. Fossils of Homo floresiensis, dubbed "the hobbits" due to their tiny stature, were discovered on the island of Flores in 2003. Controversy has raged ever since as to whether they were an unknown branch of early humans or specimens of modern man deformed by disease.
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