Where Did the Hobbit Come From?

Two Skulls
The skull of Homo floresiensis, left, was found in 2004 on the Indonesian island of Flores, in Liang Bua cave. The skull is far smaller than the head of a normal Homo sapiens, right — and the hobbit's cranium has far less volume than that of a modern human. That means the hobbit had a brain considerably smaller than its evolutionary ancestor, Homo erectus, and roughly the same size as a chimpanzee's.

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