Little Species, Big Mystery The Story of Homo Floresiensis [#444491]

Little Species, Big Mystery: The Story of Homo Floresiensis by Debbie Argue
English | August 2nd, 2022 | ISBN: 0522877915 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 11.75 MB
There is only one kind of human on earth today: us. But we are only one of a number of human species - primates of the Hominini tribe - that have existed on our planet across the millennia. In 2004 the world was astounded by the discovery of Homo floresiensis, a species of human never encountered before, on the island of Flores in the Indonesian archipelago. A very short, thickset being, with long arms and feet and an appetite for stegodons (a now extinct relative of modern elephants), it was soon nicknamed 'the hobbit'. As recently as 52,500 years ago, at a time when our own ancestors were spreading around the world, these 'hobbit' cousins lived also, at least on Flores.