How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human race

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A painting of what researchers believe Homo floresiensis may have looked like. Illustration: Peter Schouten (see his amazing wildlife artwork here)

by Robin McKie

It remains one of the greatest human fossil discoveries of all time. The bones of a race of tiny primitive people, who used stone tools to hunt pony-sized elephants and battle huge Komodo dragons, were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2004.

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Published on February 22, 2010 13:52
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