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Homo floresiensis
August 18 , 2024
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- Researchers discovered three hominin fossils dating to 700,000 years from Mata Menge in the So’a Basin of central Flores of Indonesia.
- With this, Scientists have come up with two theories to describe their origin.
- The first argues that Homo floresiensis was a dwarfed descendant of early Asian Homo erectus.
- An extinct human species, Homo erectus may have lived between 100,000 and 1.6 million years ago.
- The second theory suggests that Homo floresiensis is a descendant of a more ancient hominin from Africa like Homo habilis or the famous ‘Lucy’ (Australopithecus afarensis).
- They were also smaller in stature and existed before Homo erectus.
- The new study found that the three fossils had slightly smaller jaws and teeth than Homo floresiensis.
- This suggests that their small body size evolved early in the history of Flores hominins.
- These hominins likely witnessed a drastic body size reduction from large-bodied Asian Homo erectus sometime between 1 and 0.7 million years ago.
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