• Living large yet so small

  • Mar 18 2025
  • Length: 31 mins
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Living large yet so small

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    The discovery of Homo floresiensis and Homo luzonensis in SE Asia raises big questions about what happened to some early populations of migrants. Here, John McNabb, explains how these discoveries re-shape our understanding of human evolution and human migrations, but also what the world was like when modern humans began to expand out of Africa. It may have been much more crowded than previously thought!


    Key Site

    Liang Bua

    Mata menge

    Dmanisi



    Key People

    John McNabb (Mac)

    Mike Morewood


    Key Hominids

    Homo floresiensis

    Homo luzonensis

    Homo erectus

    Denisovan


    More Reading

    Brumm, A., van den Bergh, G., Storey, M. et al. Age and context of the oldest known hominin fossils from Flores. Nature 534, 249–253 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17663


    Baab, K. L. (2012) Homo floresiensis: Making Sense of the Small-Bodied Hominin Fossils from Flores . Nature Education Knowledge 3(9):4


    Détroit, F., Mijares, A.S., Corny, J. et al. A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines. Nature 568, 181–186 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1067-9

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