It's easy to think that evolution led inevitably to modern humans, the cleverest of apes. But there were some strange excursions along the way. Take, for example, the Hobbits.
That's the nickname for a 3-foot-tall human relative that once lived in what is now Indonesia. A new discovery suggests that it was island life that created this dainty creature.
Anthropologists first found the bones of the Hobbits in 2004 on the island of Flores. Their scientific name is Homo floresiensis....
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/08/481263190/fossils-suggest-that-island-life-shrank-our-hobbit-relatives?ft=nprml&f=1001
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