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HOBBIT BONES UNEARTHED
IN INDONESIA
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[ October 16th 2005 ]
The age-old
question on the origins of the human race has
once again been called to order with the discovery
of additional evidence unearthed in Indonesia
of a second 'Hobbit' like race thought to have
roamed the Earth the same time as man, Associated
Press reports today.
The discovery
of a jaw bone, to be reported in Thursday's issue
of the journal Nature, represents the ninth individual
belonging to a group believed to have lived as
recently as 12,000 years ago. The bones are in
a wet cave on the island of Flores in the eastern
limb of the Indonesian archipelago, near Australia,
AP reports.
The tiny
bones have enchanted many archaeologists who accept
the interpretation that these diminutive skeletons
belonged to a remnant population of prehistoric
humans that were marooned on Flores with dwarf
elephants and other miniaturized animals.
If proved
true, the discovery grafts a strange and tangled
evolutionary branch near the very top of the human
family tree.
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