Paleoanthropology: When hobbits (slowly) walked the earth.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1126/science.320.5875.433.
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Abstract
At the recent American Association of Physical Anthropology meetings, a researcher described the foot bones of an 18,000-year-old Indonesian skeleton known as the "hobbit." The tiny hominin would not have walked like we do, he said, and may offer "a window into a primitive bipedal foot."
Medical subject headings
- Foot Bones
- Hominidae