Theories abound, few stick for tiny, ancient hominids

So-called ‘hobbits’ still a mystery - and a challenge to convention

By John Noble Wilford / The Bulletin
May 1, 2009

STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Six years after their discovery, the extinct little people nicknamed hobbits who once occupied the Indonesian island of Flores remain mystifying anomalies in human evolution, out of place in time and geography, their ancestry unknown. Recent research has only....

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