Hobbit-Like Human Picture Gallery

Hobbit-Like Human Picture Gallery: Photo of floresiensis and sapien skulls
Hobbit-Like Human Picture Gallery: Photo of homo floresiensis skull
Hobbit-Like Human Picture Gallery: Scientist photographs skull
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Hobbit-Like Human Picture Gallery: Photo of floresiensis and sapien skulls
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Homo floresiensis alongside Homo sapiens. The new species of human's adult size was about that of a three-year-old modern-human child. The skull of H. floresienses was the size of a grapefruit.

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—Photograph courtesy Peter Brown/Nature
 

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