On the Indonesian island of Flores, a diminutive branch of the human family tree quietly endured for thousands of years not by mastering their environment, but by learning to live within it — trailing the kills of Komodo dragons rather than making their own. New paleoanthropological research into Homo floresiensis, the so-called hobbits of human prehistory, suggests that evolution did not always march toward greater complexity, and that survival has always been a more varied and humble art than our origin stories tend to admit.
Ancient 'Hobbit' Humans May Have Scavenged Rather Than Hunted
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