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Science 12 November 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5699, p. 1116
DOI: 10.1126/science.306.5699.1116a
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Skeptics Question Whether Flores Hominid Is a New Species

Michael Balter

A small but vocal group of scientists is arguing that the tiny 18,000-year-old skeleton dubbed Homo floresiensis (Science, 29 October, p. 789) is actually a modern human afflicted with microcephaly, a deformity characterized by a very small brain and head.

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