Scientists: Hobbit wasn't a modern human
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Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist. Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, researchers have wrangled over whether the find was an ancient human ancestor or simply a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.
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Maybe walking upright on two legs isn't such a defining human feature after all. Scientists who spent a year photographing orangutans in the rain forest say the trait probably evolved in ancient apes navigating the treetops long before ancestors of humans climbed to the ground &#151; a hypothesis that contradicts science museums the world over.
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The miniature people found to have lived on an Indonesian island until 13,000 years ago have shaken up views of the human past.
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Contrary to the movie Jurassic Park, in which scientists recreate dinosaurs from ancient DNA, genetic material more than about 50 thousand years old cannot be reliably recovered.
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Science & environment: Fossilised skull thought to date back up to 100,000 years, a period long a mystery to scientists
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New findings suggest that some Neanderthals were fair-skinned and redheaded.
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Two new studies throw some doubt into the conventional wisdom of what the Earth was like when dinosaurs roamed it
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The claim has the ring of a myth. But environmental scientists say it is real.
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Can the long-extinct mammoth be resurrected through the alchemy of modern biology?
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The species found in the mountains of Indonesia may be new to science, but not to Sherlock Holmes.
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SYDNEY - The discovery of a skeleton of a female barely one metre tall who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18000 years ago could force a reassessment of the origins of humanity, scientists in Australia said yesterday.
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The skeletal remains of human "Hobbits" found in Indonesia belong to a new branch of our family tree, a study says.
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Neandertals may have died out like a bad movie&#151;by word of mouth. Modern humans' complex use of language sounded the defeat of their big-browed cousins, a new study says.
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Scientists have unearthed a new species of hobbit-sized humans that may have lived as recently as 12,000 years ago, sharing the earth alongside modern-day man.
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Brain strain Another salvo has been fired in the row over whether the remains of the Indonesian "Hobbit" people actually represent a separate species, or just malformed Homo sapiens.â¦
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Fantasy fiction isn't a big seller in the first part of the 20th century. Along comes Tolkien and  changes everything.
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Long live the real Bilbo Baggins, the first Little People of the World, Homo floresiensis and Homo sapien archeologists Michael Morwood, Peter Brown and Professor Soejono!