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HUMAN OR HOBBIT?

Its discoverers claim that a tiny skull from the Indonesian island of Flores (left, with human skull on right) represents a new species of hominid. But a new analysis comparing the skull’s dimensions with those of people who have a genetic disorder called microcephaly suggests that the fossil belonged to a human who had that condition. Credit: P. Brown

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