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Science 25 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5875, pp. 433 - 435
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5875.433
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
When Hobbits (Slowly) Walked the Earth

Elizabeth Culotta

At the recent American Association of Physical Anthropology meetings, a researcher described the foot bones of an 18,000-year-old Indonesian skeleton known as the "hobbit." The tiny hominin would not have walked like we do, he said, and may offer "a window into a primitive bipedal foot."

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