A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia L. Frank Baum wear a peasant's straw hat

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A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia L. Frank Baum wear a peasant's straw hatIn October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Morwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of the first example of a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, which they nicknamed the "Hobbit." This was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy, however, but a tool using, fire making, cooperatively hunting person. The more Morwood and his colleagues revealed about the find, the