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This is not a new story, but there is a new article in the New York Times about a very curious bunch of bones, seemingly from an as-yet unknown hominid found on the Indonesian island of Flores.
I find this all endlessly fascinating: possible proof of one of humanity's close cousins, alive just 11,000 years ago, with a skull the size of a grapefruit. What's most interesting is that there are certain features (the wrist, for instance) that differ from H sapiens and the Neanderthals in a way that suggests a separate evolutionary split around 2 million years ago.
As a fan of exobiology and other anomalous finds, this is just the sort of thing that starts the mind really turning.
I find this all endlessly fascinating: possible proof of one of humanity's close cousins, alive just 11,000 years ago, with a skull the size of a grapefruit. What's most interesting is that there are certain features (the wrist, for instance) that differ from H sapiens and the Neanderthals in a way that suggests a separate evolutionary split around 2 million years ago.
As a fan of exobiology and other anomalous finds, this is just the sort of thing that starts the mind really turning.