Today, researchers are releasing a paper that describes bones from a diminutive hominin that occupied the island of Flores much earlier than the hobbits. And they argue that, while it still shares an odd mix of features, it is most closely related to Homo erectus, the first hominin species to spread across the globe.
Based on the relationship between humerus length and body size, they estimate that the individual it came from was only a bit above a meter tall. They also took a slice from the center of the sample and imaged the cells present in the bone when it fossilized.
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