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A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia

P. Brown, T. Sutikna, M. J. Morwood et al., 2004. Nature 431: 1055-1061.

Names Homo floresiensis from LB1, a partial skeleton of an adult about a metre tall with a cranial capacity near 380 cc, found in 2003 in Liang Bua cave, and describes its mix of primitive and derived traits.

MYS0CZNMCEW7JWZ · mystery · click to copyMHomo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"ArticleCopy of LB1, type specimen of Homo floresiensisdoi: 10.1038/nature02999Checked against the original0

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Brown, P., Sutikna, T., Morwood, M. J., Soejono, R. P., Jatmiko, Wayhu Saptomo, E., & Awe Due, R. (2004). A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia. Nature 431: 1055-1061. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02999
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