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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Homo floresiensis is a distinct species

We had just learned about Homo floresiensis in school and were supposed to write a two-page single-spaced paper formulating our own hypotheses on its possible origins. So how fortuitous it is that researchers have now confirmed that the ancient Hobbits of Indonesia are a separate species, and not diseased or deformed descendants of Homo sapiens.

Homo floresiensis lived in and around the area of Indonesia approximately 94,000 to 13,000 years ago. The species has confused scientists on where to put it on the evolutionary tree because of the members' diminutive size (three and a half feet tall) and the fact that they lived isolated from the rest of civilization.

This should help me on my paper.

Update 06.27.10; Watch the fairly recent NOVA episode "Alien from Earth" to learn more. It's damn good.

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