Homo floresiensis, also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit", is an extinct species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000
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Liang Bua Cave, where the specimens were discovered
Skeleton at the Natural History Museum, London
LB1 (left) vs. microcephalic human (right)
Homo is a genus of great ape that emerged from the genus Australopithecus, encompassing a single extant species, Homo sapiens, along with a number of extinct species classified as either ancestral or
Homo floresiensis
…Homo floresiensis ( ), also known as "Flores Man" or "Hobbit" (after the fictional species), is an extinct species of small archaic humans that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago. The remains of an individual who would have…
Reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis, Natural History Museum, Vienna
Reconstruction of H. ergaster, American Museum of Natural History
Homo heidelbergensis may have evolved from H. ergaster, possibly following an intense population bottleneck 800,000 to 900,000 years ago.