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Science 17 December 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5704, pp. 2047 - 2048
DOI: 10.1126/science.1107565
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Perspectives

ANTHROPOLOGY:
The Astonishing Micropygmies

Jared Diamond

The stunning discovery of a Late Pleistocene hominin skeleton, on the Indonesian island of Flores has thrown the anthropological world into a frenzy. The primitive and derived features of the skeleton, but most curiously its tiny stature suggest a new species of diminutive Homo erectus called H. floresiensis. In a provocative Perspective, Jared Diamond provides a scintillating synthesis of the evidence for a new H. erectus species and debates the reasons why the fossil remains of this pygmy hominin have only now been discovered.

The author is in the Geography Department, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. E-mail: jdiamond{at}geog.ucla.edu

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
The Brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis.
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Science 308, 242-245
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