The Flores Hobbits: How Homo floresiensis Rewrote Human Evolution

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The Flores Hobbits: How Homo floresiensis Rewrote Human Evolution

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In 2003, archaeologists on the Indonesian island of Flores unearthed a skeleton that would upend everything we thought we knew about human evolution. Standing just over one meter tall, with a brain the size of a chimpanzee's, Homo floresiensis — nicknamed 'the hobbit' — lived as recently as 50,000 years ago. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the discovery at Liang Bua cave, the fierce debate over whether the hobbit represents a new species or a diseased modern human, and the island's unique ecosystem of dwarfed elephants and giant lizards. They discuss the tools found alongside the skeleton, the tiny wrist bones that suggest an ancient lineage, and the competing theories of insular dwarfism versus microcephaly. What emerges is a story of how one small island can challenge big scientific assumptions — and how the search for our ancestors continues in the most unexpected places. #Homofloresiensis #Flores #LiangBua #Hobbit #Paleoanthropology #HumanEvolution #InsularDwarfism #Stegodon #MataMenge #SoaBasin #Archaeology #Indonesia #SoutheastAsia #Fossil #ScienceDebate #Hominin #NewSpecies #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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