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        "msgid": "hobbits-were-even-smaller-than-we-thought-1771846106",
        "date": "2024-08-07 18:46:48",
        "title": "Hobbits Were Even Smaller Than We Thought",
        "author": "admin",
        "source": "INSIGHTS",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Anthropology",
        "summary": "Scientists have discovered that Homo floresiensis, the diminutive ancient humans from Indonesia's island of Flores, were substantially smaller than previously believed. New fossil discoveries at the Mata Menge site dating back 700,000 years reveal an even earlier and smaller ancestral human species, suggesting the species underwent gradual body size reduction over time.",
        "content": "<p>Scientists from an Australian university have discovered that the\nancient human species known as Homo floresiensis, or \u201chobbits,\u201d were\neven shorter than previously believed. These tiny humans lived on the\nIndonesian island of Flores until as recently as 50,000 years ago,\nsharing the planet with our own species, Homo sapiens. Originally found\nin Liang Bua cave in 2003, these small-brained people stood roughly\nthree feet six inches tall and had large teeth for their size. While it\nwas initially thought they were dwarfed descendants of Homo erectus,\nrecent studies suggest in fact that they may have come from an even\nolder human ancestor. Evidence of an even smaller human species had been\nfound earlier at the Mata Menge site on Flores. These individuals had\nsmaller jaws and teeth than Homo floresiensis, suggesting that the small\nbody size evolved earlier in the species\u2019 history. Now, scientists have\nuncovered additional fossils at Mata Menge, including a tiny adult\nhumerus bone, dating back 700,000 years. This truly incredible find\nconfirms that these ancient inhabitants of Flores were smaller than\ntheir later descendants, the Hobbits. Research Dr Brumm argues that \u201cThe\nnew fossils strongly suggest that the \u2018Hobbit\u2019 story did indeed begin\nwhen a group of the early Asian hominins known as Homo erectus somehow\nbecame isolated on this remote Indonesian island, perhaps a million\nyears ago, and underwent a dramatic body size reduction over time,\u201d This\nnew and exciting discovery adds another layer of mystery to the story of\nhuman evolution.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/hobbits-were-even-smaller-than-we-thought-1771846106",
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