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| | Island's little folk: How close a kin to man? - Health & Science - International Herald Tribune |
 | | NEW YORK New discoveries in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, notably another jawbone, appear to give additional support to the idea that a separate species of little people, new to science and now extinct, lived there as recently as 12,000 years ago. |
 | | The group of Australian and Indonesian researchers said the bones were fragments of nine individuals of unusually small stature, little more than three feet, or one meter, tall, and, judging by one skull, with brains the size of a chimpanzee's. |
 | | The implication that made the original discovery a year ago such a sensation was that these "little people of Flores," as they are commonly called, represent a distinct species that shared the earth with modern humans far more recently than anyone had supposed. |
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