New measurements bolster the 2-year-old claim that fossils of a half-size human ancestor found on the Indonesian island of Flores represent a new species, Homo floresiensis.
BRAIN TEASER. Excavations at a 2,000-year-old Japanese site yielded three skulls, each shown (top to bottom) in overhead, front, and side views, including one with microcephaly (far right) that contrasts with a controversial skull of a tiny human ancestor.
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