by Tabitha M Powledge
RESEARCH ROUND-UP	Return of the Hobbit Email: Tabitha M Powledge - tam@nasw.org News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20051013-02 Published   13 October 2005

New postcranial bones and a second jaw matching that of the Hobbit—the much-ballyhooed 18,000 year-old partial skeleton revealed a year ago—strengthens the case that a population of tiny creatures now known as Homo floresiensis lived on the Indonesian island of Flores long after all other human species except our own had gone extinct.

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