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The dawn of Homo floresiensis

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New fossil findings demonstrate that the diminutive hominin Homo floresiensis lived on the Indonesian island of Flores at least 700,000 years ago, and may point to its rapid dwarfism from the larger Homo erectus. See Letters p.245 & p.249

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Figure 1: Candidates for the ancestry of Homo floresiensis.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, Aida Gómez-Robles is in the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University, Washington DC 20052, USA.,

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Gómez-Robles, A. The dawn of Homo floresiensis. Nature 534, 188–189 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/534188a

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