November 5, 2004
Small for Their Age
An ancient species of tiny people is discovered in IndonesiaIn a discovery that has stunned the world of paleoanthropology, researchers last week announced that a hitherto-unknown species of hobbit-size humans lived in Indonesia for tens of thousands of years, up until the end of the last ice age -- an extremely recent time by evolutionary standards.
With a skull the size of a grapefruit and a brain as big as a chimpanzee's, these archaic three-foot-tall people survived
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