Homo floresiensis

The most comprehensive study on the bones of Homo floresiensis, a species of tiny human discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, has found that they most likely evolved from an ancestor in Africa and not from Homo erectus as has been widely believed.

homo floresiensis – Kennis&Kennis Reconstructions

Modern human and Homo floriensis. Illustration comparing a modern human female (Homo sapiens sapiens) with a female Homo floriensis.

Homo florensiensis probably was a dwarfed version of the famous Java Man.

Several teeth from an adult and children, and the fossilised mandible of a diminutive species of early human that lived 700 000 years ago have been discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores. It is thought to be the direct ancestor of the Hobbit of Flores, the 1.1 metre tall human species that lived around 50 000 years ago.

The second version (2.0) of Archaeological Forensic Facial Reconstruction of the individual LB1 of the species Homo floresiensis. (Cicero Moraes et alii/CC BY 4.0)

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The remains of a small-statured hominid may be a new, hobbitlike, species called Homo floresiensis.

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