New research suggests that the tiny human species – that survived until about 18,000 years ago, later than any human species other than our own – evolved its small size remarkably quickly while living on an isolated island. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/tiny-extinct-hobbit-human-species-fast-evolution…
Tag: homo floresiensis
Why Humans’ Extinct ‘Hobbit’ Relatives Were So Small
The diminutive size of the extinct human relative called the Hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, could come down to really fast evolution. Source: https://www.livescience.com/why-hobbits-were-so-small.html