Homo floresiensis – an offshoot of Homo erectus – is the extinct species at the centre of the research, which once made their home in the island of Flores. It focuses on 700,000-year-old fossilized ...
It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.
These individuals—called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed the “hobbits” after J.R.R. Tolkien’s small Middle-earth inhabitants—were shorter than today’s average human 4-year-old. Many questions about ...