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.
Analysis suggests the remnants belonged to diminutive individuals even smaller than Homo floresiensis – enigmatic human species named after fantasy author JRR Tolkien’s fictional race of people in ...