Homo floresiensis: the "hobbits" of Flores Island (What Every Human Should Know)

What may have been one of the three or four most important events of the early twenty-first century was the discovery of the extraordinary skeleton of a small, hobbit-like hominin of diminutive stature (1 meter), small brain (380 cm3,as compared with the average modern human of ~1500 cm3) and large feet in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. Radiocarbon dating established that this ... person? ... lived approximately 18,000 years ago.

This "snack-sized" essay from the WHAT EVERY HUMAN SHOULD KNOW series explains what every human should know about the "hobbits" and why they are so important. Active TOC, 4 greyscale illustrations.