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September 2007
- 'Hobbits' Were, Indeed, a Different Kind of Human
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Sep 21, 07 1:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A new study of three wrist bones from an 18,000-year-old fossil shows that the so-called hobbits of Indonesia were, indeed, a separate human species. When the bones were discovered in 2003, scientists trumpeted the find as evidence of a smaller species, Homo floresiensis. But skeptics argued that the hobbit, at 3 feet tall with a brain the size of a grapefruit, was in fact a human afflicted by microcephaly, a brain-shrinking disorder. More »
  
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  Indonesia • archaeology • fossil • human evolution • anthropology • skeleton • hobbits • Homo erectus • homo sapien
August 2007
- Kenyan Fossil Rattles Human Family Tree
  
  National Geographic | Aug 9, 07 8:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Two of our ancestors apparently lived alongside each other in Africa rather than evolving from one to the next on the path to Homo sapiens , as scientists once believed. National Geographic reports that a Homo habilis skull dug up in Kenya is surprisingly young, making its 1.4 million-year-old owner a neighbor to Homo erectus rather than an evolutionary forerunner. More »
  
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  Africa • Kenya • evolution • archaeology • fossil • human evolution • anthropology • origins of humanity • homo sapiens • Homo erectus

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