The 'hobbits' of Flores
Humans about a metre tall live on an Indonesian island
In 2003 a cave on Flores yielded the skeleton of an adult about 1.1 metres tall. Nicknamed 'hobbits', Homo floresiensis lived on the island until modern humans arrived some 50,000 years ago, and probably shrank through island dwarfism, like many island animals.
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As recently as 50,000 years ago, humans about 1.1 metres tall lived on the Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed 'hobbits', Homo floresiensis descended from settlers who arrived a million years earlier and probably shrank. Share →
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Africa
- c. 60,000 BC Out of Africa — same year