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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Evidence is mounting for the argument that the 'hobbit' of Flores Island was not the same species as modern humans. The first of
the 17,000-year-old _Homo floresiensis_ fossils were discovered in 2003; since then there has been fierce debate over whether they represent a new diminutive _Homo_ species, or _Homo
sapiens_ with the medical condition cretinism. Peter Brown at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, analysed _H. floresiensis_ traits such as brain mass, skeletal proportions
and tooth development, and compared them with those of people with cretinism. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your
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FAQs * Contact customer support RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Hobbit small, but not stunted. _Nature_ 482, 135 (2012).
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