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far from being the linear narrative of successive waves of colonisation out of Africa, as once thought, the process was, in fact, one with numerous twists and turns involving many different species.
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among the most outstanding discoveries in paleoanthropology in over half a century.
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because the cave also unearthed sophisticated stone tools similar to others found around the world in Homo erectus sites
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Flores tools were tiny, the right size for people of only 3ft tall with a brain the size of a chimp or grapefruit
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Remarkably, the skull was found in a layer of sediments dating back only 18,000 years, long after the Neanderthals had vanished from the face of the Earth, having lost the evolutionary battle to Homo sapiens, the sole human species on Earth by then. This had huge ramifications for the varying theories of human evolution.
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it could have been a descendant of Homo erectus that arrived early on Flores, perhaps using boats, and which, becoming stranded, evolved its petite size as an adaptation to the limited food supply available.
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They also proposed the unimaginable, that Homo floresiensis lived contemporaneously on Flores with Homo sapiens.
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isease of some sort that produced the specimen’s unusual features.
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