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That is the message from a strange Indonesian fossil belonging to a previously unknown species of the human family: Homo floresiensis, the hobbit people.

Catherine Geslain - Lanéelle unexpectedly announced her resignation from the European Food Safety Authority; and Michael Morwood, co-discoverer of Homo floresiensis, died on 23 July after battling cancer.

Homo floresiensis, the enigmatic diminutive hominin from Flores, Indonesia, retains primitive wrist bones, implying that it is not closely related to modern humans.

The jawbone is at least 20 percent smaller than those from Liang Bua, suggesting H. floresiensis may have evolved from an even smaller hominin.

Analysis of a wealth of new data contradicts an earlier claim that LB1, an ~ 80,000 year old fossil skeleton from the Indonesian island of Flores, had Down syndrome, and further confirms its status as a fossil human species, Homo floresiensis.

First described in 2004 from fossils discovered at Liang Bua, a cave on the island of Flores, the meter - tall Homo floresiensis was instantly nicknamed after J.R.R. Tolkien's diminutive characters.

Scientists are planning an attempt to extract DNA from the «hobbit» Homo floresiensis, the 1 - meter - tall extinct distant relative of modern humans that was unearthed in Indonesia, following a study that suggests problems in standard sampling methods in ancient - DNA research could have thwarted previous efforts.

This year, geneticists at the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) at the University of Adelaide hope to recover DNA from a roughly 18,000 - year - old H. floresiensis tooth, which was excavated in 2009 from the Liang Bua site on the Indonesian island of Flores.

In your interview with Richard Leakey, you report that he steps aside from the debate on whether Homo floresiensis — the «hobbit» — represents a distinct species.

The discovery of 17,000 - year - old Homo floresiensis — the «hobbit» — dispelled that notion, but many anthropologists look on H. floresiensis as an anomaly, isolated from the human — Neanderthal hegemony on the mainland.

Homo floresiensis fossils revealed the tiny hominid didn't evolve from Homo erectus, as previously believed.

«We looked at whether Homo floresiensis could be descended from Homo erectus,» Argue said.

«It's possible that Homo floresiensis evolved in Africa and migrated, or the common ancestor moved from Africa then evolved into Homo floresiensis somewhere,» Argue said.

In addition, the so - called «hobbits,» a short species known to scientists as Homo floresiensis, also may have evolved from other isolated humanlike species.

A detailed comparison of bones and teeth from Homo floresiensis rules out a close link to human ancestors.

«It's possible that Homo floresiensis evolved in Africa and migrated, or the common ancestor moved from Africa then evolved into Homo floresiensis somewhere,» study leader Debbie Argue said in a statement from Australian National University.

«This study is purely based on differences in morphological characters between fossil specimens, with each character weighted equally, and with disregard of any functional aspects of every character,» says Dr. Gerrit van den Bergh of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, one of the authors of the 2016 study published in Nature that supports the idea that H. floresiensis descended from H. erectus and was made small by insular dwarfism.

Certainly, stranger things have happened, but not everybody thinks we can be «99 percent sure» H. floresiensis is not descended from H. erectus.