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grew no larger than a threeyearold modern child (See pictures). The tiny
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elephants and Komodo dragons on a remote island in Indonesia 18,000
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with a chimpsize brain is even more remarkable. That they were still there less
than 20,000 years ago, and [that] modern humans must have met them, is
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The researchers estimate that the tiny people lived on Flores from about 95,000
years ago until at least 13,000 years ago. The scientists base their theory on
charred bones and stone tools found on the island. The blades, perforators, points,
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In an accompanying Nature commentary, Marta Mirazón Lahr and Robert Foley,
both with the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies at the University
of Cambridge, England, describe Homo floresiensis as changing our understanding ¿Problemas con
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