Not exact matches
But Homo
floresiensis raises the tantalising possibility of an earlier expansion of hominins — who were
probably not - quite - Homo — out of Africa.
But a comprehensive study of the bones of H.
floresiensis finds that not only is the species
probably older than H. erectus, but it inhabits a completely different limb of our evolutionary tree.
A new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution finds that Homo
floresiensis, a teensy little hominin species first discovered only a little more than a decade ago in a cave on the indonesian island of Flores,
probably doesn't fit into the human family tree the way we thought.