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An Island Of Hobbits; A one-meter-tall human skeleton shocks scientists.(Brief Article)
Byline: Jonathan Adams
One year ago, in a room in the Indonesia Center for Archeology in Jakarta, seven scientists huddled around a table and swore themselves to secrecy. In front of them, still dirtied by sediment, lay a skeleton the size of a child, about a meter tall. But this was a tiny female adult with a massive jaw and puny forehead, only about 18,000 years old--a blink of an eye in evolutionary terms. "We were astounded," says project leader Mike Morwood, an archeologist from the University of New England in Australia. Nobody had ever found evidence that recent hominids, or human ancestors, could be so radically different from modern humans.
Now that the secret is out--the journal Nature published the news last week--scientists are cock-a-hoop over what may be the most significant hominid find in 50 years. It was taken from a limestone ...
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