A news brief from Science Daily details the lastest blow to the hypothesis of insular dwarfism in archaic hominins in Micronesia. This story was a bit unbelievable since it surfaced last spring in National Geographic, but managed to hang around human evolution discussion because of the interesting LB1 specimen found on Flores several years earlier. [...]
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