It was back in October 2004 when archaeologists first unveiled the partial skeleton of a tiny, small-brained hominin previously unknown to science, now known as Homo floresiensis.
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van den Bergh, G. D. & Brumm, A. R. (2016). A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits' ancestors were even smaller. The Conversation, 9 June 1-5.