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Homo floresiensis from head to toe

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Fossils of tiny ancient humans, found on the island of Flores, have provoked much debate and speculation. Evidence that they are a real species comes from analyses of the foot and also — more surprisingly — of dwarf hippos.

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Figure 1: Fossil site — Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores.
Figure 2: The human family tree.

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  1. Daniel E. Lieberman is in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. danlieb@fas.harvard.edu,

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Lieberman, D. Homo floresiensis from head to toe. Nature 459, 41–42 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/459041a

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