From San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the Paleoanthropology Society and Society for American Archaeology meeting
Fossils of a humanlike species dubbed Homo floresiensis that lived on the Pacific island of Flores between 18,000 and 12,000 years ago recently grabbed headlines because scientists deduced that this creature stood no more than 1 meter tall and possessed a surprisingly small brain.
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