Scientists: Hobbit wasn't a modern human
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THE MYSTERY: Since the discovery of the famed "hobbit fossil," researchers have wrangled over whether the find was a human ancestor or a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.
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Scientists took a fresh look at human evolution through tiny hitchhikers that have clung to humans and their relatives for centuries - lice.
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THE DISCOVERY: The bones of a human dwarf species marooned on the remote Indonesian island of Flores between 95,000 and 12,000 years ago while modern humans rapidly developed elsewhere.
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The discovery of remains of a tiny human closely related to man on the remote Indonesian island of Flores and tales of Hobbit-like creatures who still roam its jungles have triggered an influx of visitors in search of a fabled lost world.
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Australian scientists who found a new species of hobbit-sized humans who lived about 13,000 years ago on an Indonesian island said on Thursday they expect to discover more new species of hominids on neighboring islands.
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Some of the head lice infesting people today were spread to us thousands of years ago by an extinct species of humans like Homo erectus.
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On a remote Indonesian island, archeologists were astonished to discover a new, small human species that walked the earth just 18,000 years ago. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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Careful study of the wrist bones from the prehistoric "Hobbit" bolster the idea that the creature was a distinct human species.
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Jakarta - A leading Indonesian scientist on Saturday challenged the widely publicised theory that fossilised bones found on the eastern island of Flores were from a previously unknown species of human.
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LONDON - Modern humans began dominating the world far earlier than thought, according to anthropologists who say they&#39;ve discovered fossils of a new human dwarf species.
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A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago &#151; perhaps close to the dawn of the species.
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The archaic human species that dominated Europe until the arrival of modern humans some 45,000 years ago possessed a critical gene known to underlie speech, according to DNA evidence.
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Australian scientists who helped discover a species of tiny humans nicknamed Hobbits have been hailed for making the second most important scientific achievement of 2004.
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Archaeologists who uncovered the "Hobbit" are given permission to restart excavations.
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In the continuing debate over the origin of the extinct âlittle peopleâ of Indonesia, a team of scientists says it has found evidence that these people were members of a distinct species.
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a heretofore unknown species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.