For a million years, one of humanity’s last cousins lived on an island in Indonesia. Why did they disappear?
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It’s the first evidence that early humans made a formidable sea crossing from the mainland to Sulawesi at least 1 million years ago.
Modern day people of short stature became physically small due to the effects of living on a small island or forested environment. But we’re not sure why “the Hobbit” of Flores was so small.
New research on Indonesian fossils reveals clues to an ancient expansion out of Africa.
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